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?"

fear.She tried her best

B-Bren— I was coerced

She reeled in realization.

pictures to threaten me! I had no choice but to sleep with him, Bren! Believe me.I’m in so much agony and pain.I’m

like he

as though he was

panic doubled at

asked, "Why didn’t you tell me when

"I...wouldn't dare!"

tears generously

you'd reject me ...by thinking I’m unclean! M-Maybe you wouldn’t want me anymore! What would happen then? I thought it’d be over if I just did what he wanted me to do

as if he believed half

his ears,

vanishing into the farthest end of the corridor and gripped

from 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 did she allow herself to be set up like this!? Her mind raced to the moment when a

this room—where the trap was waiting.She

Her ankles turned weak.

her clothes back on