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.

heart and didn’t know what to do when he thought about Deirdre’s smile and

suddenly knocked on the

the door knob to enter the study

temple, his eyebrows tightly furrowed. “Why are you here in my room instead of chatting

courage to say,

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

fingers clenched into tight fists. “1… I would like my mother to move into the villa temporarily. Will that be

said, “You can set your mind at ease. I’m only worried that it will be troublesome for her to travel back

“Is that all?”

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 you think I’m going to reject you without the slightest hesitation? What sort

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

rejected by me, scared of troubling