Resent, Reject, Regret

Chapter 884 I Won’t Let You Down

The sudden weightlessness bewildered Deirdre. She instinctively grabbed his collar as she grimaced in panic. She could feel him opening a door, and then, silently-she found herself gently plopping on the softness of her bed.

Her surroundings were too quiet, and she could hear her heart racing.

Helplessly, she cried out, “B-Brendan? B-Brendan!”

The man in question planted a gentle kiss on her forehead. “I’m here.”

She withdrew her fingers into fists. “Please, don’t…”

The nervous dread on her face annoyed him enough that he snorted.

Please don’t’? Really?”

animal, Dee. I’m not going to take advantage of you when you’re still injured.

and tacitly allowed him to do whatever he

what he said he would. He gently poured some ointment on her injuries and rubbed them carefully, his erstwhile cool hand strangely warm this

would occasionally frown when it hurt. Brendan always caught it

over, Brendan told her gravely, ‘The people who did this to you

she said, “The

of the prices I have to pay is this. I’m used to a life like that,” she said under her breath. “What I want in the end is news

while, he asked, ‘You’re still worried about

me, with certainty, if my mother’s still alive. I don’t want you to lose everything you have or become some image everyone out there spits on for some grandiose reasons

at most, but Brendan could still detect genuine care and concern from her. His lips

Deirdre was no longer the same woman who