Regrets Come Too Late (Sierra and Johnny) novel Chapter 250

Chapter 250

“Your husband isn’t that fragile,” John said slowly.

That one sentence forced everything Sierra was about to say down into her chest. Silence fell between the two again.

After a long time, John finally made up his mind. He kept his dark eyes on her and said, “Sierra.”

“Yeah?” she answered.

“I don’t want the divorce anymore,” John said.

Sierra froze a little as she frowned, like she was trying to decide whether he was joking around.

“All this time, I was just letting you have your way. From agreeing to the divorce to going with you to file the paperwork, to setting the date to pick up the certificate… All of it,” John said.

He knew it would make her furious, but he had to say it plainly.

He didn’t want to go through this twice. He wanted to clear everything in one go.

“I never wanted to divorce you,” John said, his eyes focused on Sierra. “Even if we go to the registry next week and you sign the forms, I won’t sign it/ I’ll walk away instead.”

In that instant, the gratitude in Sierra’s chest turned to anger. The rage bubbled inside, almost erupting. “So… Am I supposed to thank you for choosing me so firmly?”

Everything he said made her feel like an idiot for fighting so hard.

If one sentence from him could reject everything she had worked so hard for, what was the point of all that effort all this time?

Seeing her tense up and starting to arm herself again, John felt a pang of pain inside his heart.

“I want a divorce,” Sierra said. Her eyes were red with fury, her emotions reaching a boiling point. “We will have the divorce!”

“Sierra…” John tried to calm her.

“Why do you get to decide whether to divorce or not?!” Sierra snapped.

All the emotions inside of her had ballooned uncomfortably. When the pressure in her chest could find no release, it transformed into language that was meant to hurt.

“How is what you’re doing right now any different from your controlling parents?!”

People said things they didn’t mean when they were livid and enraged. They would say things that hurt without meaning to.

It was the first time John had heard her talk to him like that. And in that moment, he understood that what he had just said hurt her more than telling her about Pamela.

He stood up immediately and pulled her into his arms.

Sierra hit him back in his chest, “Let go of me!”

John didn’t.

She hit him, pounded his chest, bit him, venting the anger on him with everything she could think of. This wasn’t like last time when a couple of bites were enough to make her vent her anger. This time, she put everything into it so that John could sense all her anger and fury.

“I’m sorry,” John said, holding her tight.

Did it hurt?

Chapter 250

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It hurt, but it was nothing compared to what was ripping through Sierra.

Why not let her go?

He couldn’t let go. If he let her go, if he walked away now and left her alone, how was she supposed to vent it all out? How was she supposed to swallow and digest it all by herself, then sit there and accept it?

That was just too cruel.

Better to let her vent all her emotions onto him. Better to pay for the hurt he had caused her. That was the price he had to pay.

“Ngh!”

This time, Sierra chomped down hard with no restraint. Blood spread across the clean white shirt he had just changed into.

He still didn’t stop her as he held her the same way as before.

Maybe that embrace would make her hate him even more. But without it, she was going to sit here and cry alone in her frustrations for a long time.

He had always believed she would turn back to him after she had run into enough dead ends. Only now did he realize Sierra didn’t even know what turning back meant. She only knew how to keep marching on the same road.

When she couldn’t go any farther, she would keep on slamming into the dead end repeatedly.

Then, either a new path was revealed with her breaking through the dead end, or the dead end finally knocked her down for good.

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