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.

came out, he asked

“I am.”

It’s too cold

she remembered what Sam had

her senses adjusted, she realized the entire room was thick with the scent of

in the voice of a man whose skin was wrapped under

found herself enveloped in an embrace so tightly she could not free

and decided to cut to the chase. “Why are you hurt

her hair. Surprise shadowed his face. “Are you…

looked down and repeated, “Just tell

into momentary silence. “Did Sam talk to you

fact, his expression was

days ago because of something involving someone important to me. It’s

fingers fiddled with strands of her hair. On the one hand, he was displeased with Sam giving away even the smallest of