Regrets Come Too Late (Sierra and Johnny) novel Chapter 97

Chapter 97

Tommy wanted to say no to John.

He wanted to take care of his mom himself.

Before he could insist, his father picked him up and carried him toward the bedroom, quietly threatening him, “If you don’t wash up and go to sleep, I’ll tell her tomorrow that I was the one who brought her home.”

Tommy was a little stunned. “You…”

“Hurry now,” John urged.

Tommy stayed where he was. “I’ll wait for you.”

John didn’t argue with him. He took the makeup remover into the master bedroom and began to clean Sierra’s face with practiced motions.

He was very careful with the corners of her eyes and around her lips. When he finished, he used a fresh towel to wipe her face repeatedly until there was nothing left on her skin.

Tommy watched it all from the doorway.

Old scenes appeared from his memories without warning.

Years ago, when Mom went to dinner parties with Dad and came home late, she would sometimes fall asleep in the car.

Dad would tell him not to wake her, then carry her inside and gently take off her makeup and wash her just like this, patient and meticulous.

Everything looked the same as before, but why did their relationship change?

John noticed Tommy still standing there, stunned, but didn’t ask anything. He sent him out to wait and helped Sierra change into sleepwear, and only then did he go to Tommy’s room.

He sat down on a chair beside the bed. “Why are you acting like an old man?”

Tommy sat cross–legged on the mattress. “Dad.”

John’s voice lifted slightly. “Yes?”

Tommy’s expression was unusually serious. “You still like Mom, right?”

John paused. For a moment, his whole body went still.

“I don’t know why you’re with another lady, and I don’t understand what makes her more important than Mommy,” Tommy said.

It was the first time he had ever spoken to his father this seriously. The expression on his face had never been so serious,

“But if you still care about Mom, why did you give her up?”

“I didn’t give her up,” John said quietly.

From the very beginning, Sierra was the one who wanted the divorce. As long as she turned back, he could let go of everything between them in the past and let her come back to him as his wife even now.

Tommy was young, but he understood more than adults thought. “Being with that woman is giving Mommy up. Or making Mommy give up on you.”

John frowned. He didn’t agree with that conclusion.

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“I want to ask you something,” Tommy said.

He was trying to give his father one more chance, just because his dad had treated his mom very well tonight.

John sounded a little distracted. “Ask away.”

“Who’s more important? Mommy, or that lady.” Tommy’s eyes were filled with complicated emotions as he looked at John.

John pressed his lips.

In his heart, Sierra was more important.

In his mind, Pamela was. If she hadn’t saved him back then, there would be no John Henderson today, no marriage to Sierra, no son sitting in front of him.

Tommy didn’t hear the answer he wanted, and it hurt his heart. “Can you stop seeing that lady?”

“I can’t,” John said. His tone was flat, without a ripple.

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