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?”

silent. “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 see

a perfectly satisfactory life after marrying

that Ophelia was more important to

shattering for her to find out about

describe him as a coward or a vile man, but he needed to keep this

excuse to keep

brink of death. He

next afternoon. Brendan looked at the woman in her arms instinctively and found her leaning on his chest, her hair messy. Her face was no longer

caught in a daze for a moment upon witnessing the

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

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

turned cold

on Deirdre’s body, and reached for his clothes. He said in a

his jacket and looked at Deirdre’s face with a 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