Regrets Come Too Late (Sierra and Johnny) novel Chapter 388

Chapter 388

The end of the month arrived quickly.

That evening after dinner, Anna and Sterra walked slowly through the garden.

Watching Sierra, who looked cheerful on the surface but was clearly weighed down inside, Anna asked, “Now that I have more or less recovered, do you want to leave soon, or wait a little longer?”

Sierra walked very slowly. “Are we really going to Harbor City?”

“Yes,” Anna said.

Sierra’s expression became mixed. “Didn’t you always hate that place?”

“I used to. Now, I don’t feel much about it,” Anna said honestly. Going to Harbor City was a decision she had thought through from every angle.

Harbor City was, apart from Jade City, the best choice whether it was for schools, hospitals, and starting a business or finding work.

Sierra couldn’t help asking, “Why?”

If Anna were doing this for Sierra and Tommy despite her own reluctance, Sierra would rather pick another city. She didn’t want her mother to sacrifice herself for her. She didn’t want her mother to go there and have to relive her nightmares again.

“I was stubborn in the past,” Anna said plainly. “I felt that since the people I hated were there, I didn’t want to go back. Now, I have figured it out. They are the ones who did wrong. Why should I be the one to leave, instead of them feeling guilty when they see me?”

She had been too prideful when she was young. That pride had dragged on all the way into middle age. But after seeing everything Sierra had gone through, and after Nathan came all that way just to find her, she had finally understood something.

No matter where she lived, the people who cared about her would stay close, and the people she hated would still find a way to appear in her life.

She might as well choose a good place and shut out the noise and live her life while living with the people she loved.

“Once you and Uncle Lucas get your divorce certificate, we’ll go,” Sierra said.

She hadn’t managed to get her own divorce and did not want her mother to fail, too.

“Alright,” Anna agreed.

Once they had settled it, Sierra spent the rest of her days pretending everything was normal. John came over every day and slept in the same room as her.

Every day, he told her he loved her. Sometimes, he brought gifts. Flowers one day, some little curiosity he had seen the next.

He treated her just as well as he had during their five years of marriage.

But she couldn’t love him anymore. With that wall in her heart, nothing he did could satisfy her. Her first instinct was to shut him out.

Time quietly passed by, and August the sixteenth had arrived.

The waiting period for Anna and Lucas was about to end.

Sierra had already booked their tickets out of Jade City. Anna had gone ahead and buried their booking details in the system, making sure John wouldn’t be able to trace them.

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That night, John came home from work early. After dinner with them, he took Sierra out for a walk in the garden. Looking at how absent she seemed, he knew her heart was already gone.

“Sierra,” he called.

Her attitude toward him these days had hovered somewhere between mild and distant. “Yeah.”

John held her hand. “There’s a dinner reception on Monday night. Come with me.”

Sierra paused.

Monday.

The nineteenth.

That was the day her mom and Lucas would get their divorce certificate. Once they finished, she and Anna would take Tommy and leave.

“You said you couldn’t handle being close to me earlier, but you could still come to events with me,” John said, giving her hand a gentle squeeze. “It’s just to show our faces. We can leave in half an hour at most.”

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