Resent, Reject, Regret

Chapter 805 Are You Concerned About Me?

Sam almost gave her the answer straight away. He had to stop himself right before it happened and change it to something less direct. “It’s… someone very important to you.” “Someone important… to me?”

His answer threw her mind into disarray. She knew Sam would never lie to her over something so trivial, but if that were the case, then who could this person be?

A figure took form in her mind, and she immediately rejected it.

It could not be her. She was dead. Her mother was dead.

“Who?” “I can’t tell you, Miss McKinnon.” Sam intoned helplessly. “All I’m allowed to say is that I did not lie when I said Mr. Brighthall had not been spending his time with Charlene at all. Instead, he had been using all this time to redeem himself in your eyes.

‘When he was attacked by a gunman yesterday, all he cared about was calling you to tell you he’s fine. But his phone was switched off, and maybe that was why he raced to this place from the hospital as quickly as he could.”

Deirdre remembered how Mrs. Engel could not reach him in the afternoon yesterday. She had been under the impression that Brendan was ignoring them out of annoyance, but it turned out he was simply unable to answer them.

She stayed rooted on the floor, her head suddenly growing heavy with understated pain.

finished his work. When he came

“I am.”

come inside. It’s too cold

ignore it, but she remembered what Sam had told her and decided to

eluded her at first. Then, as her senses adjusted, she realized the entire room was thick with the scent of

of a

enveloped in an embrace so tightly she could not

and decided to cut to the chase. “Why are

Surprise shadowed his face. “Are you… concerned about

did not answer directly. She looked down and

momentary silence. “Did Sam talk to you while you

it was him. In fact, his expression

told me you left a few days ago because of something involving someone important to me. It’s also the reason you were attacked and hurt. Is that

one hand, he was displeased with Sam giving away even the smallest of details, and yet… He was also enjoying the woman showing her least