Resent, Reject, Regret

Chapter 186 Wish I Could Choke You to Death

It was all related to Ophelia.

Brendan had known how important Ophelia was to Deirdre for a long time.

Ophelia had been sick because of Deirdre, so she had carried the heavy burden of raising Deirdre by herself. She had refused to marry again and taken three laborious jobs to make a living.

Deirdre had once whispered to him, “Brendan, you’re the second most important person in my life.”

He had been agitated at the time and he had humored her by asking with a cold face, “Who’s the most important person then?”

“My mother!” Her tiny face had blushed scarlet because she had misunderstood his reaction for jealousy. She had explained herself in a panic, “Don’t misunderstand.”

“What’s there for me to misunderstand?”

too many hardships for me, so I would die

lived a perfectly satisfactory life after marrying

apparent that Ophelia was more important to her than

for her to find out

felt suffocated by the weight on his chest. One could describe him as a coward or a

not think of an excuse to keep this

of being on the brink of

instinctively and found her leaning on his chest, her hair messy. Her face was no longer ghastly pale, but her cheeks were stained with a sickly blush. Her breathing was shallow, and she was clutching his

in a daze for a

up together in the same bed during the past two years on his fingers, yet

moment later, Deirdre opened her eyes in confusion. After sensing the man next to her, she said in

turned cold

He said in a cold, mocking tone, “Who else would want to lie on the same bed with

cold gaze. He said through clenched teeth, “Deirdre, do you think you’re capable now? It’s fine that you had a death wish, but you actually jumped off the building. Had Sam not grabbed you in time, you would have been in a morgue