Resent, Reject, Regret

Resent, Reject, Regret By Aqua Summers Chapter 26

Chapter 26 You Liar!

The call was connected. Brendan gnashed his teeth as he said, “Where the hell are you, McKinnon?!”

Deirdre said nothing. At the end of her silence came a click

-and the call was hung up.

She stuck the phone back into her pocket, feeling disappointed. That had not been Sterling, as she had hoped. How was he? Was he okay? She had no idea how he was.

The only silver lining right now was how well-known the Fuller family really was in the city. Even a run-of-the mill cab driver knew exactly where to take Deirdre when she asked him to take her to their house.

She paid the driver, who told her where the doorbell was, and pressed it. There was a series of quick footsteps, accompanied by a voice thick with annoyance . “Which nutcase is it this time? It’s like they all think they can just ring whenever they feel like it!”

“I’m sorry,” Deirdre huffed, feeling anxious . “I… I just

wanted… to know where Sterling is? He’s not picking up his phone”

the young man-even though he was supposedly one of her employers. “Just a bastard child, that one, but oh-so-many troubles! I guess being the bastard child of a big wealthy family still counts for something ’cause he still

Funeral?!

paled. Had Brendan not said he

“Please! Please let me come inside to see him! Brendan – Mr. Brighthall -promised me that everything would

zooming in on her. Startled and taken aback, she cussed. “What the f*ck! Oh my god,

you prowl in the

the gate

right

Do you?! Who do you think you are, ya lil’ freakshow ?! An ugly, blind a*s who’s also somehow super-entitled! God, why am I the

felt better. Before the maid could leave, though, Deirdre gritted her teeth through her pain and threw her hands around the maid’s leg. “Don’t go! I’m begging you, let me in! I just want to tell them that it’s over… Tell them to stop hurting Sterling… Please, just let me do

sight that

only to find her like this. A

someone by throwing herself around their leg-all so she

just a blind woman! She was the one who

Brendan, but something else fueled it: jealousy. This devotion was his right-his right alone!

there and talk! Please,

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