Resent Reject Regret by Aqua Summers novel Chapter 242

Chapter 242 Misgiving Dispelled

Deirdre’s lips were trembling, and she stretched out her hand with great effort. ” Mother, can I… touch your hands?”

She knew Ophelia’s hands. They were a pair of old hands covered in calluses that felt very different even at a very young age, especially in some spots.

She had not felt out Ophelia’s hands seriously before this but she had grown suspicious after Charlene’s remarks.

Maeve’s heart was racing. “What’s going on? What’s going on with you… Deirdre?”

“I’m fine…” Deirdre took a deep breath and cracked a fake smile with great difficulty.” I used to hold your hand frequently in the past and I missed doing that all of a sudden. I yearned for the feeling of you holding my hand when you walked me home

after school…”

“1 see.” Maeve smiled, but her heart was still on guard. She had figured out that Deirdre must have noticed something. At the same time that a feeling of uneasiness grew in her, she had no choice but to stretch out her hand.

“Alright, I shall hold my little Deirdre’s hand then.”

Her voice sounded as warm and affectionate as before.

Deirdre was terrified all of a sudden because she feared the hands would be smooth, fine, and delicate, just like the hands of a person who had never performed laborious chores in her life.

If that was the case, the outcome would be clear.

She raised her hand shakily and held Maeve’s hand. However, Deirdre was distracted for a moment when she felt the coarseness of Maeve’s hand. Her hand was covered in calluses and was not a young woman’s hand at all, unlike Charlene had described

it.

At the same time that she felt joyous, she felt her heart sink as well. It was because this pair of hands was still too delicate compared to Ophelia’s hands in the past.

“What happened?”

Maeve felt anxious in her heart. She had already noticed Ophelia’s hands when she had watched video clips of Ophelia previously.

Her hands had been aged, skinny, emaciated, covered in calluses, and waxy.