Resent, Reject, Regret

Chapter 233 I Want Your Love

Deirdre’s eyes were filled with uncontrollable joy and reddened from holding back her tears. She inhaled a deep breath and said, “Thank you, Brendan.”

She spoke in all apparent seriousness, and there was gratitude in her eyes. However, Brendan was not pleased by her gaze. On the contrary, he felt a knot in the pit of his stomach and felt suffocated.

Deirdre was the only person who was unaware that Ophelia was already dead. He was making up a fake world just to delude her.

He could not afford to accept her gratitude.

“I told you that I don’t like the words ‘thank you”.” Brendan’s dark eyes turned dim, and he abruptly got up from his seat. “I’m sure that both of you have a lot to talk about because you’ve just been reunited after so long. I’m going to do some work in the study room. You can come to me if you have anything important.”

He walked upstairs and took a seat in the study room. The desk was stacked with documents, yet he could not bear to read even one word.

intense conflicting feeling in his heart and didn’t know what to do

on the door

knob

and propped up his head with a hand on his temple, his eyebrows tightly furrowed.

bit her lower lip and shut the door after her. She hesitated for some time before mustering the courage to say, “Brendan, I have

that Deirdre had only come after mentally preparing herself. Brendan’s gaze locked on her face as

would like

ease. I’m only worried that it will be troublesome for her to travel back and forth. I’ll ensure

“Is that all?”

I am? Why do you make it seem so difficult to talk about when you’re only requesting for Ophelia to stay in the villa for a while? Am I a monster or something? Or

do as his pressing query confronted her. She explained, “No…

Scared of being rejected by