Goodbye, Mr. Regret novel Chapter 108

Timothy stared at the message on his phone, his dark eyes fixed on the glowing screen for a long while.

[Do you like it?]

He typed a reply.

[Yeah, just like Happy and Lucky.]

He pressed his lips together, thinking.

If Sheila liked them, there was no harm in giving her one too.

There were twenty-two left.

He bought them all, though he only intended to keep one.

The rest, he'd throw away.

It was just an excuse to set one aside for Sheila.

[If you like it, keep it.]

Capital City.

Jessica was too afraid to sleep. She huddled in the corner of the hotel room, knees pulled to her chest, shivering so hard her fingernails nearly broke the skin of her palms.

Every clap of thunder struck like a hammer against her heart.

The storm had knocked out the power, plunging the room into total darkness.

Only when lightning ripped across the sky did the world briefly flicker into view.

The wind howled, rain hammered the windows with a relentless drone, and Jessica felt her courage drain away, fear flooding every corner of her mind.

Childhood memories crashed over her.

That evening, the sky was heavy and gray, rain threatening at any moment.

Her mother had handed her a twenty, told her to run to the corner store for a bottle of soy sauce, and said she could buy whatever snacks she wanted.

Jessica had spent ages picking out candy, even choosing a piece of cake she knew her mom loved.

She was practically skipping on the way home, swinging her bag of groceries, when she reached the foot of her apartment building—and someone fell from above.

There was a sickening thud.

Jessica froze. When she finally looked, she saw it was her mother.

Her mom's gentle eyes stared wide and unseeing, blood spreading from the back of her head in dark, snaking rivulets across the concrete.

Blood welled from her eyes, nose, mouth, and ears. Her skin was as white as paper—utterly lifeless.

Someone shouted that a woman had jumped.

People quickly surrounded her mother.