Resent, Reject, Regret

Chapter 926

Chapter 926 Prying for Answers

“Are you sure? Even if you’re ill, it’s my duty as your fiance to be very concerned.” Brendan narrowed his eyes. “Or are you sulking because I’ve been neglecting you?”

As he spoke, he quietly drew his distance closer and closer to Charlene until his face was only several inches away from her. “I mulled about it for a moment and decided that, yes, I’ve been unfair to you. We are to be married, after all. I’ll be staying here for the night.”

That offer would have sent Charlene straight to rapture if it had happened at literally any other time. At that moment, though? It just made her so panicked she was on the verge of breaking down.

“No!”

She rejected him so immediately and urgently that Brendan stared at her.

“1-1 mean, what about Miss McKinnon? She’s still here in the mansion! I thought about this and, you know, it’s inappropriate to do this to her when she’s pregnant with your kid. We still have a lot of time together, but hers is running out. We should, you know, be the bigger people, right?”

be wasted on her.” “I don’t mind,” Charlene smiled weakly and did all she could to put on a convincing act of compassion. “Miss McKinnon’s small-hearted because she knows she can never be your wife. But I’m different. I’m your significant other and the future mistress

gaze turned profound. “You’re doing so much.

her teeth through the agony. “No, not at all.

her room would attract attention, she could only hide

turned red. She had sacrificed

Deirdre was nibbling at the food behind the dining table.

first floor that Brendan did his usual routine of breaking into her room

are you doing!?” she cried, bewildered. The thought of barricading her windows just kept

edge of her supple lips. “Prying for answers, of course. Wasn’t

was livid. “Hinting at what? I didn’t

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