Her Revenge Was His Regret (Shirley and Gilbert) novel Chapter 197

Chapter 197 Unexpected Celebration

And he made sure to hit Sherry with one last warning before he was done.

So from that day on, Sherry never ate out again. Not even when the power or gas went out at home, and she couldn’t cook a thing.

She’d just starve herself instead of stepping foot outside for a bite to eat.

And she never ordered takeout either.

She was scared Gilbert would catch her ordering it-and then he’d come after her.

At first, she was totally heartbroken over it.

But after a while, even that feeling faded. Because she realized she couldn’t eat out even if she

anted to-she was flat broke.

en’t for all the jewelry she’d gotten when they got married, she would’ve ended up

on the streets.

She’d learned her lesson the hard way.

If she took any job that wasn’t “respectable,” Gilbert would just find another reason to give her a hard time. And later, that’s exactly what he did-he harassed her nonstop.

So even though Sherry knew she’d get in hot water, she still went to eat those ribeyes that day. Her feelings were all over the place-mostly because she hadn’t eaten out in ages.

She hadn’t had a decent meal in forever, all because she was trying to save money.

And she hadn’t been anywhere near a BBQ joint in even longer.

Even much later-even now-she didn’t give a crap what Gilbert thought. But she still remembered that photo like it was yesterday.

In it, she’d looked so lonely, so pathetic-like no one cared about her.

And she was still young, but she’d looked like some old hermit living all alone. Even her back had seemed so sad. She’d never realized that’s how other people saw her.

A lot of people said she was faking it-doing it on purpose so everyone would feel sorry for her.

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But deep down, she hated the thought of anyone seeing her like that. Was it some big win to let people see you at your worst?

It just made you look like a loser. How many people would actually care about you?

Pop! Pop!

Tony and the guys were holding small confetti cannons. They even pulled out a banner to celebrate with Sherry-yanking her out of her bad memories.

The meat was grilled just right, and its amazing smell drifted over, straight up into her nose.

But her common sense kicked in. “What are you guys celebrating for me?”

“Duh! Celebrating your first big event since you started working here!”

The three of them said it like it was the biggest deal ever.

Word of what happened here had probably gotten back to the office already. If she didn’t know how these guys were, she would’ve thought they were being snarky.

Max pushed up his imaginary glasses, looking super serious. “Even though I just do odd jobs now, I was basically half an assistant before you got here. Remember the first time Mr. Harrison took me to a party?

“I turned around for one second, and I burned a hole in Mr. Harrison’s suit. All the people were laughing.”

Tony scratched his nose, embarrassed. “Actually, I used to have Max’s job. One time, I saw a girl with a really nice dress. I wanted to remember her face so I could ask where she got it after work. But she thought I was a creep.

“Mr. Harrison had to ‘sacrifice his looks’ to get her to believe I wasn’t into girls-I just liked her dress brand, that’s all.”

Sherry was stunned.

When she thought she had messed up at work, it helped to find out everyone else had messed

up even worse.

No wonder Lucas didn’t have a full-time assistant.

Turns out, all three of them were total screw-ups.

“So the fact that you didn’t cause a huge mess today makes you our hero.”

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