Resent Reject Regret by Aqua Summers novel Chapter 809

Chapter 809 stay With Me, Keep Me Company

“You’re wrong. You can help me.” Brendan’s lips began to loom close. His face seemed to be zooming in on her eyes. She still could not make out much of his features, but she could feel his breath washing over her.

She instinctively froze. “How was I supposed to help?”

“Kiss me to relieve me of my pain.”

Deirdre’s expression darkened. ‘This cr*p again?” she snapped and ignored him altogether, rising to her feet as though she was going.

Brendan reached out and caught her in the wrist, and the pain of something being torn open flared on his arm.

He took a shaky breath, and his fingers quivered. Still, he refused to let go.

“Brendan? Are you okay?”

He fixed his eyes on her alarmed expression and reacted with a helpless grimace. “I know you hate my guts, Deirdre, but my injury came from rescuing your friend. Can’t you at least be a little nicer to me while I’m recovering?”

Deirdre found herself having no counterargument. She would freely admit to loathing Brendan with every fiber of her body, so much so that staying with him for more than ten minutes could suffocate her. At the same time, though, she had to admit that it was Brendan who had saved Tobey.

She took a deep breath and lowered her eyes to the floor. “What do you want me to do?”

Brendan added a little force in his hand to pull her in. “Sit with me and keep me company,” he said sincerely.

She frowned. “That’s it?”

He paused and said, “You mean I can ask for more?”

Deirdre almost choked on her own saliva. “No. What I meant was I don’t understand why you insist I sit with you! If all you need is a companion, why not just ask Charlene? She’s the woman you love the most! Have her keep you company. You won’t be as bored as being bound to me, at the very least!”

The name instantly summoned a surge of disgust in his eyes. “Who the h*ll told you she’s the woman I love the most?”

Deirdre laughed self-deprecatingly. “What? You’re going to tell me she’s not now?”