Resent, Reject, Regret

Chapter 780 Is This Who You Really Are!?

Deirdre nodded, her head trembling.

Tobey hesitated no longer. “We should pack up and leave right now.” “No, we don’t have to go!” Deirdre tugged on his arm. “I told Julia not to pass any information about me to Brendan. Even if he wants to know about me, Julia’s going to dig up some excuses to throw him off my scent.”

More importantly, Deirdre knew they could no longer afford to run like fugitives.

“Are you sure?” The frown on Tobey’s face refused to go. ‘You’ve only known the girl for a week. He’s known her for way longer. What if she accidentally let out the secret and…”

“No, that’s not gonna happen,” Deirdre replied as the firmness in the girl’s voice returned to her mind.

“I told her a reasonably good fib. Julia might still be a little on the green side, but she’s a perceptive, bright kid. She should be able to cover us well enough.”

Tobey could not find much to argue with that, so he turned his attention to calming her down. “Okay. That aside, you should take a bath and take a break. From now on, you should stay home and not go anywhere. Brendan will leave here after getting no results, right?”

an unimportant side-chick like herself. He had Charlene already, so he should probably give up

was fitful that night. Three days passed,

she was barred from contacting anyone or

the fourth day, she heard a series of knocks on the door. It was not Tobey*s time to

could, hoping that she could tell if

back on and call Tobey to

Deirdre! I heard your footsteps! Open the

‘Julia?

was startled. She shook out of

staggered inside impatiently, panting. She examined her surroundings and remarked, ‘This is where you’ve been living? There isn’t even any actual piece of furniture, for Christ’s sake! And that mat is like, what, ten years old at least? I know you can’t see,

before this one, she would have been too afraid to even

instantly. “Why are you here, Julia?”

on your phone! I couldn’t sleep for nights, okay? I had

Deirdre