Resent, Reject, Regret
Even the coldest heart would soon grow warm if she kept holding on to it. That was what she believed. That was why she became his unloved placeholder of a wife. Unfortunately, all her devotion only led to a heartless divorce. โSheโs awake now,โ he told her. โStep down and step away, you miserable knock-off.โThen, he left. When he came back, it was because he needed her to do something only an impostor could do: go to jail for his dream girlโs crime. Deirdre McKinnon was condemned to perdition. She lost her baby before it was born. She lost her face to violence. She lost the ability to see. It was two months of a hell-like nightmare. At last, something died inside her heart. Two years later, she found herself another man, but when Brendan Brighthall met her by pure happenstance, a new feeling was born in his heart: jealousy. There were no means too terrible, no scheme too underhandedโnot if it meant heโd possess Deirdreโs heart again. And yet, she simply refused to love him anymore.โWhat do you want me to do, Deirdre McKinnon?! What must I do to go back to the good old days?โ His eyes turned red. โIโll give you everything I have!โโYou gave me a copper trinket two years ago. It was a sorry excuse for a wedding ring, and yet I cared for it as though it was the most precious jewel in the worldโฆโBut now? Nothing you can give would be even remotely worthwhile. Not even you.โ
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