Resent, Reject, Regret

Chapter 487 That’d Be Degrading to You

The woman was doing a crappy job of hiding her lack of confidence. “We’re not, like, speaking anymore!”

“But you didn’t say the two of you are divorced, did you? Why wouldn’t you answer the question?”

The woman’s indignance turned into rage. “Who the f*ck are you? Why are you getting in between our business?”

“No, Miss McKinnon’s completely right.” Hoyt suddenly spoke up. Frigidness had shadowed his face.” Selma, are you and Mr. Sach split?”

Selma could not answer him. As her silence grew, Hoyt’s cold suspicion turned into a scowl undergirded by quiet disappointment. “Now, what? You just want to have it both ways, don’t you? Make me your side- chick, or whatever the h*ll you call it?” 1

“I’m not trying to make you a side-anything!”

“Then explain why you’re asking us to start over when you’re not completely split from Mr. Sach!”

“I just want to be with you, okay?” Selma cried in frustration. Her eyes were red. “Yes, we aren’t divorced, so what? We were supposed to be together! The thing that stopped us was your poverty. My parents wouldn’t let me marry you because you’re poor, so we didn’t!

50-year-old man’s wife!? If only you could be an entrepreneur, industrialist,

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wasn’t a better man for you. But all that is in the past now, okay? The only thing we should do now

Did she charm you with voodoo, or are you that down-bad, huh? You’re

to the floor. “You don’t understand. I

broke her own silence. “Excuse me, but where were you when Hoyt was kneeling outside your

The young woman froze.

him scraping his knees outside, waiting and waiting for you to come to see him. You saw him

just as your parents wanted you to. In other words, you’re the one who gave up on him, not the other way around. So, why are you pretending that he was

do you know!?

mean?” Deirdre cast her eyes low to the floor. “I get it. His financial status isn’t the best. But you know he has the capability to provide you a decent, happy life. It was your greed that killed this relationship. Your insatiable

ignored. Suddenly, you want him to start an affair with you if it means someone will love you. Don’t you see? You’re degrading yourself.

eyes were beet red. Livid, she raised her hand.

her wrist

“Hoyt?”