Deirdre’s eyes were bloodshot, and she bit her lower lip tightly. “I didn’t…”“Charlene shuts herself in the room and refuses to eat now because of you, and you’re still stubbornly denying it?” Brendan was laughing from anger, his eyes bursting with coldness. “I thought you were begging for Sam to come back? Sure, if you can make Charlene forgive you, I’ll let bygones be bygones!”‘Make Charlene forgive me?’Deirdre felt her heart wrench in pain violently. He wanted her to beg the woman who killed Bliss for forgiveness? More importantly, Charlene would never let her off easily after seizing the opportunity with great effort.Brendan sneered. “How is it? Do you still want your Sam back?”He used the words ‘your Sam’ to mock her. Deirdre swallowed the bitterness in her throat, but her heavily damaged heart was still hurting. She could not care anymore. Would she still be afraid of being tormented when she had almost lost her life?“Sure, I’ll seek Charlene’s forgiveness if you ca
Deirdre was stunned for a moment. She could obviously tell from the servant’s tone what it meant by Brendan and Charlene being in the room by themselves. Deirdre felt unusually disgusted by the thought of Brendan raping her when he was already sleeping with Charlene. She suppressed the acid reflux in her stomach with great effort and said, “When will Brendan leave the room?”The servant smiled and said, “I’m not too sure about that. Perhaps Mr. Brighthall will be down in an hour or two.”Sawyer felt slightly uneasy because the servant’s remark was too strange. He immediately said, “Please let Miss McKinnon and I enter the house first. Miss McKinnon caught a cold yesterday, and her body is weak, so she can’t stand waiting in the cold wind. We’ll wait in the living room.”The servant’s gaze changed for a moment before she forced a smile. “I’m sorry, but I don’t have the right to invite a visitor into the living room without Miss McKinney’s order. If it’s fine with you, please just w
“She is your wife and has no fear of being harmed in any way… What is so different about her and me? Is it only because she is your first woman?”Brendan furrowed his eyebrows ever so slightly, yet he could not answer her question. He knew that everything felt very natural when he was with Deirdre while he resisted Charlene’s physical interaction with him.Perhaps it was because he still could not accept having intimate interaction with Charlene as a married man.“Don’t overthink this.” In the end, Brendan gave this answer while attempting to move her hand away. Charlene’s eyes were reddened with tears, and she hugged him tightly to stop him from moving. “I can’t stop myself from overthinking. Brendan, why can’t you accept me if you can accept Deirdre? We have been together for such a long time, yet we have never engaged in lovers’ intimacy. Could it be that you want me to do nothing while I watch Deirdre sleep with you?”She wept profusely. Brendan’s body was stiff as he watch
It was apparent that it was a critical situation judging by Brendan’s sternness. Sawyer did not have the courage to procrastinate, so he hastily asked, “What happened, Mr. Brighthall?”“Someone stirred up trouble and got several people injured. Sam was one of them, and his condition is quite critical.”Brendan described Sam’s condition as quite critical, so the critical level would surely be unusually bad in reality. Sawyer hastily opened the car door for Brendan. The latter was about to get into the car when Deirdre suddenly grabbed his arm.“Brendan, who did you say is injured? Is Sam injured? How bad is his injury?”There was no telling if her face was pale from the cold or scared out of her wits from overhearing the conversation. Brendan’s face was filled with evil emotions. He clutched her hand and pulled it away by force. “This is not an issue that you should concern yourself with. The pressing matter for you now is to figure out a way to make Charlene forgive you.”Deirdr
Deirdre could not see Charlene but could hear Charlene’s arrogance and also pride in her tone.‘It seems that Charlene has been waiting for me to come for a long time.’Deirdre inhaled a deep breath. Her self-respect refused to let her enemy defeat her. Yet at the thought of Sam…She smiled in defeat. ‘Who am I to deserve self-respect…’“Miss McKinney, I’m here to seek your forgiveness.” Deirdre raised her head, her gaze empty. “A person of great moral stature does not remember the offenses committed by one of low moral stature… Please don’t be offended by a person of low moral stature like me.”Charlene smiled. “You’re too courteous, Miss McKinnon. Why would I make things difficult for you when we’re both women? It’s only that I’m in a bad mood because of that incident.”She insinuated, “How about this, Miss McKinnon? You help me with something, and I won’t make a fuss with you if I’m pleased with the result. How about that?”Deirdre was surprised by how gentle Charlene was.
“It’s fine.” Deirdre immediately rejected Charlene’s offer. “You will only need to tell me what else I can do to seek your forgiveness, Miss McKinney.”Charlene looked at the servant holding a bowl of stew mixed with horseradish, mustard, and chili and smiled in satisfaction. “You don’t need to do anything else, but I’ll forgive you if you can finish the bowl of stew in Greenlee’s hands.”A look of astonishment flashed past Deirdre’s eyes. “That’s all?”“Yes, that’s all.”Deirdre could smell the pungent horseradish smell from a distance. However, she perked up at the thought that everything would come to an end if she could finish the bowl of stew. “Alright, please hand it to me.”She stretched out her arms to receive the bowl, but the servant avoided her hands and placed the bowl on the floor. Charlene said proudly, “However, there’s no extra seat and cutlery for you at the table, Miss McKinnon. You’re going to have to lie on the ground and eat it with your mouth bit by bit!
“Charlene! You deserve to die!”Charlene chuckled. The curse was so gentle that she could not be bothered about it. “Deirdre, you’re very naive. How will I forgive you so easily when I hate you so much? You’re the person who robbed me of my life!”‘Rob her of her life?’Deirdre clenched her teeth tightly. She was the one who had saved Brendan, and Charlene went under her name and took her place by undergoing plastic surgery to look like her. Now, Charlene had actually accused her openly that she robbed Charlene of her life?“Tell me, who robbed whose life off?” Deirdre spoke through her gritted teeth.Charlene’s beautiful eyes darkened abruptly. She took a step forward and glared at Deirdre ferociously. “Shut up! If I say that you robbed me of my life, that is the truth, then! If you have the courage to declare otherwise in Brendan’s presence, I will assure you that you won’t end up well!”Charlene grew tired when she had her fill of complacency. She yawned gracefully and said, “
At that moment, Brendan felt his heart wrench in pain violently for no apparent reason.He felt an ineffable anger surge into his head and could not help holding Deirdre’s wrist. “Deirdre? Why are you here?” he asked in rage.Deirdre opened her eyelids ever so slightly and jerked back from unconsciousness to reality by the pain in her wrist. She listened to Brendan’s query and found his remark taunting. Her lips moved when she said, “Where else can I be if not here? Didn’t you make me come here?”The woman’s wrist felt ice cold, and the coldness seeped into Brendan’s palm like an invisible hand. His face turned green with anger. ‘Yes, it was me who made Deirdre come here. Yet, I assumed that Charlene would not make things difficult for Deirdre because she is such a kind woman. Still, she actually punished Deirdre to stand in the cold yard when the temperature is dropping from the impending winter?’Brendan felt his chest hurting and darted a look at the bloody, mushy laceration w