Regrets Come Too Late (Sierra and Johnny) novel Chapter 664

"Thank you for the invite." Anna treated Cyrus like a stranger as she spoke to him on the phone. "Things are busy at home, so we won't be going."

"Then can I come over?" Cyrus asked.

Anna paused for a moment. Since when had the stubborn, aloof head of the King family learned to be this tactful?

"New Year's Eve dinner is for family. It wouldn't be appropriate for you to come." She composed herself and refused the suggestion. Letting go of the past did not mean forgetting what had happened. "I'll hang up if there's nothing else."

Cyrus felt as if something had stabbed into his heart.

Time slowly ticked by.

After three or four seconds of silence, Anna ended the call.

Nathan had heard the call, too. Only then did he realize that even though Anna had let him stay near her all this time, it might only be because she needed someone to run errands for her, not because she was slowly forgiving him.

But he did not care.

As long as he could stay by her side and make it up to her, that was enough.

"If you want to visit the King family during the New Years holidays, you can take Tommy with you," Anna said as she returned Sierra's phone. "What I said just now was only about me and him. It doesn't include you."

Sierra nodded.

It was almost ten-thirty at night already.

Sierra was walking in the garden when she ran into Nathan. She greeted him first since he was technically her elder. "You haven't left yet?"

Nathan was not sure what to say.

Did she really have to greet him like that?

"I'll leave soon," Nathan said.

"Are you looking for me?" Sierra noticed that he had come from the entrance.

For once, Sierra looked him in the eye and spoke to him directly. "What about you?"

Nathan then said, "I'm using what's left of my life to make it up to her. I won't ask for your mother's forgiveness, and I only hope I can stay by her side."

"What Mom cares about isn't what you think." Sierra told him part of what she knew after thinking about it. "If you want to make it up to her, you should try looking at what happened back then from another angle."

Nathan paused.

He understood something very quickly. "You’re saying..."

"Take your time and think about it." Sierra did not say anything more.

There was no absolute right or wrong for many things in life. More often, they were all desperate choices forced by circumstances.

If her biological father shared John's personality, maybe her mother would have resolved those old grievances many years ago instead of letting time slowly erode.