Goodbye, Mr. Regret

Chapter 577

Did she really have to show up every time they needed her, just because they needed her?

"Fine. Suit yourself. I'm hanging up now."

Vince stepped out of the bedroom, water glass in hand, intent on refilling it. He paused when he saw the kitchen light was still on.

The air was thick with the warm, buttery aroma of something baking—a blend of milk and eggs.

He walked quietly to the kitchen doorway and found Jessica standing at the counter, deftly spreading frosting over a cake.

She was making a cake?

Today was Henry's birthday.

She remembered.

Vince lingered in the shadows, keeping his distance.

About half an hour later, Jessica emerged from the kitchen, carrying the cake.

It was small-maybe six inches across-but carefully decorated, the creamy swirls on top forming a delicate pattern.

Vince watched her from behind a wall, hidden, silent.

He expected Jessica to box up the cake and take it to the hospital. Instead, she carried it straight back to her room.

Vince trailed her upstairs.

door closed

far corner, separated by the glass, he watched as she set the cake on the coffee table in front of the sofa, then lit a candle shaped like the

would have turned

scrapbook filled with paper-cut illustrations, and curled up

open the

Vince saw her

read through every

and Henry together on

keeping vigil at his bedside when he was sick, never leaving his

together in the same

planting a kiss on her

So many memories.

back to when that moment

enough to remember,

a picture of the two of them

to Oakwood, when she overheard Henry telling Sheila he

finish a book all by

He remembered.

the end, he gave his first completed book to

onto the

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