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?”

“She has experienced way too many hardships for me, so I would die willingly for her if it meant that she’d get to live to

assumed that she was the happiest girl in the world at the time. She had lived a perfectly satisfactory life after marrying him, yet she would still have died just so Ophelia could live

more important to

her

as a

he could not think of an excuse to keep

in addition to the lingering fear of being on the brink of death. He lay down right

Brendan looked at the woman in her arms 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,

in a daze for a moment

the number of occasions they had woken up together in the same bed during the past two years on his fingers, yet this feeling had actually aroused a sense of familiarity and

confusion. After sensing the man next to her, she said in an anxious

turned

flung the blanket on Deirdre’s body, and reached for his clothes. He said in a cold, mocking tone, “Who else would want to

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