Regrets Come Too Late (Sierra and Johnny) novel Chapter 223

Kenneth could feel the atmosphere around him becoming heavier and more frigid.

He lowered his voice and said to Lucy, “You still can’t stop talking after all this food? Aren’t you worried that someone will actually stab you in the back?”

“He needs me, so he wouldn’t dare lay a hand on me,” Lucy said, relaxed.

Kenneth stared at her in silence.

John turned toward her and forced down the emotion rising in his chest.

“Why is he divorcing Sierra?” Lucy asked Kenneth after she was full.

She was very bored, so she couldn’t resist the thought of having some hot tea after the meal.

“Wasn’t he crazy about her? I remember the whole she–is–the–love–of–my–life routine. He suddenly fell for someone else? Out with the old, and in with the new?”

Kenneth’s mouth twitched. “If you don’t know how to use idioms and proverbs properly, please stop using them.”

“That isn’t the point.” Lucy lounged back lazily and pointed her chin at John. “The point is what actually happened between

those two.”

“Can’t you just look it up yourself on the net?” Kenneth asked, already regretting coming. After all these years, her tongue was still as sharp. “Why must you keep poking the hornet’s nest?”

“I can’t.” Lucy sounded completely serious.

Kenneth stared at her, then he could not help but glance at John. Maybe John really had given her an absolute order.

“My laptop doesn’t like him.” Lucy pulled her laptop computer from her bag, pale slender fingers sliding over the case. “If I search his name, it’ll catch a virus and start throwing up.”

“I just remembered something at home,” Kenneth said, deciding to get out of there before the wintry air in the room turned him into a popsicle. “You two take your time.”

He stood up and started to move.

And then…

Hm?

He couldn’t.

Had his jacket snagged on something?

He turned and saw John’s hand gripping the back of his jacket.

Kenneth followed that hand up to John’s face, calm and collected without a hint of anger.

The corner of Kenneth’s eye twitched. “Actually, now that Lucy’s finally back, I should stay and keep her company a little longer.

Lucy looked between them with as much playful disdain as she could manage.

Time marched on.

Sierra was still in Anna’s ward. With nothing else to do, Lucy lay down on the couch and fell asleep, without caring about her appearance at all.

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“Is she really a woman?” Kenneth stared at the way she slept. “Isn’t that a little too unladylike?”

John gave Kenneth a side–eye.

“What now?” Kenneth muttered.

“Who says a woman has to sleep like a lady?” John said.

Kenneth paused, then realized that it did make a little sense.

Just then, a message came in from Dr. Smith. “Mr. John, Ms. Bell just left her mother’s ward and is heading upstairs to Mr. Solomon’s floor.”

John turned off the screen, then nudged Lucy’s foot with his shoe. “Get up. Time to work.”

Sierra had no idea someone was about to tap her phone. With a complicated feeling in her chest, she went upstairs. She waited outside the door for a while, then finally went in.

Besides Solomon, there was a younger cousin she had met once at the Henderson family’s New Year’s dinner.

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