Resent, Reject, Regret

Chapter 602 Why Is He So Important?

"Either you jump, or your family business is wiped out of the face of this city. Your call,” Brendan sneered. He pulled Deirdre even closer in his arms and smirked. “I bet someone who knows I'm a Brighthall would also know who I am, right? I can destroy a small-fry company with a snap of my finger, so maybe don't try my patience.”

"N-No, Mr. Brighthall! No!” Zinerva pleaded, alarmed.

Deirdre had almost died just now because nobody helped. Judging by Brendan's tone, nobody would dare to even rescue

Zinerva unless he allowed them to! "I can't swim, Mr. Brighthall- I'll die if I go down there! Please, show some mercy! It was just an accident!"

Brendan's tone was as frigid as permafrost. ‘Three. Two."

Zinerva’s lips trembled. Everything she had worked hard for-her image, her reputation, everything-was going to ruins. If news of this got out... she would become the joke of the circle. She could kiss her dream of becoming a socialite goodbye!

But Brendan would punish her family's company if she refused to jump!

never been so devastated by regret in her life.

herself afloat, and screamed at the top of her lungs, "Help

eyes. This idiot tried to

the name Declan had mentioned in their call earlier. While Ronan’s drunken intrusion into the women's washroom was made to look like an accident, Brendan later learned that someone had told

That someone? Joan Wood.

could call it a coincidence if it happened once. But the fact that she was here when the second

only dared to rescue her after Brendan vanished from sight. By that point, the young woman had lost at least five years out of her life to trauma. All she could do

into the crowd, quietly shaken by the look on

fill the tub with hot water. He then quickly

do it

clothes against her chest as hard as she could, obviously not letting the man sneak even an inch of a peek. He could only look away and murmur,

her wet clothes and submerge herself into the welcoming

out, put on a bathrobe, and stepped out of

models on the balcony to no avail. He heard the bathroom door opening and strode in from