Resent Reject Regret by Aqua Summers novel Chapter 442

Chapter 442 So Was That Your Tacit Invitation?

“Why, Kyran? Why do you think I’m… like this?”

Bitterness tinged her last question. She was angry-angry at the incomprehensibility of her own emotions.

Kyran’s hand ran down her back, his expression serene. “Deirdre, you don’t feel joy over anyone’s death because you’re that kind-hearted. Your happiness doesn’t need to be built on anyone’s pain.”

“But I should be happy! Shouldn’t I?”

“Deirdre?” Kyran lifted her chin and gazed into her eyes. “Do you still love him?”

“Love who?”

“Him.”

She shook her head with all her might. Tears of bitter, painful anger rolled out of her cheeks. “Love!? I hate him! I hate him so much… it’s wearing me out…”

“So, you’ll never forgive him, no matter what he does?”

There was not a shred of hesitancy in her response.”Never!”

Even Kyran was taken aback by how quickly her answer sprung. For a long time, he typed nothing.

The silence brewed a quiet sense of unease in her. “W-What’s wrong?”

He gave a soft laugh. “Nothing. I was just thinking. If you are that sure of your answer, then what else is troubling you?”

Sadness. Somehow, something about his word choice implied sadness. Deirdre did not notice it until she mulled his reply over.

She stiffened.

“What’s really troubling you is the strength of your resolve. Are you as determined as you think you are? Is your conviction as unshakable as you’ve imagined? Or is there a soft spot in your heart this whole time, and this confusion you’re experiencing now actually stems from your pity?

“But you heard yourself, didn’t you? The answers you gave me were pretty good indicators, right? It wasn’t pity or sympathy. You just hate him so much it wore you out and made you want nothing to do with him. any longer.”

That was true. Deirdre cast her eyes to the floor. She knew that the real source of her unease had nothing. to do with Brendan himself. She felt perturbed because she had rejected Madame Brighthall’s plea for help-because she cared about that old woman rather than her son.

She simply did not want her to suffer the loss of her one last family member. She did not want her to send off her son, who was still in the prime of his youth, when she should have been the one to go first.