Resent, Reject, Regret

Chapter 940 It’s All Deirdre’s Evil Plan!

Charlene regarded him as though he was her messiah.

Throwing her arms around his thigh, she launched a litany to explain why she was innocent despite the weight of evidence showing otherwise.

"Bren, you believe me, don’t you? Someone set me up! I don’t know who, but I know they’re trying to destroy me.You know I devote my heart and soul to you, Bren! How could I possibly want to be with any other guys!?" Brendan said nothing, even as Charlene tightened her arms around his legs.

He took a cigarette out of his pocket and lit it up.

When white smoke started to swirl in the air around them, he finally looked down at her.

"How big of an idiot do you think I am, Charlene?"

Charlene considered the frigid look on his face and shivered.

"I’m willing to excuse your...orgy with the possibility that you’ve been drugged." He continued.

"But what about those pictures? How are you supposed to explain that away? Doctored? Deep fake?"

inquisitor’s tone bleached Charlene’s visage.Her lips were quivering in fear.She tried her best to weave a convincing excuse

was coerced on

She reeled in realization.

course! That b*stard pulled me into an alley before I could notice him and then took these pictures to threaten

like he coerced you,

as though he was watching a

doubled at the

asked, "Why didn’t you tell me when it

"I...wouldn't dare!"

her tears generously streamed

I thought it’d be over if I just did what he wanted me to do that one time, but h-he showed up at

into silence as if he believed

something in his ears, prompting Brendan to extinguish

vanishing into the farthest end of the corridor and gripped

an unknown Charlene McKinney, who nobody cared about, to Charli Brighthall, the most important and treasured elite in all of Neve! So why? Why did this happen? How

was the reason Charlene had hurried to this room—where the trap was waiting.She felt a chill climbing up

Her ankles turned weak.

put her clothes back on when