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?”

chuckled before falling silent. “She has experienced way too many hardships for me, so I would die willingly for

she was the happiest girl in the world at the time. She had lived a perfectly satisfactory life after marrying

that Ophelia was more important to

be shattering for her to find out about

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

think of an excuse to keep this up for two

trip, in addition to the lingering fear of being on the brink

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 upon witnessing the

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

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

face turned cold

a cold, mocking

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 off