He Mocked My Scar, So I Left Him to His Regret Chapter 04

He Mocked My Scar, So I Left Him to His Regret Chapter 04

Late that night, Holden stood outside Lucia’s front door for a long time, clutching an anti-swelling ointment he’d bought from the pack pharmacy.

The house was dark, so quiet he couldn’t hear a single breath from within.

He lifted a hand and knocked on the heavy door.

“Lucia, are you home?”

“I bought you some medicine. Come down and get it, okay?”

“I made Bianca give back the money she took-all twenty-three hundred dollars. I’ll double it. Forty-six hundred.”

“Stop being mad, all right? She didn’t do it on purpose. Her

parents just spoil her.”

“You’re more mature than she is. Don’t stoop to her level.”

He talked for a long time, but no answer ever came from inside.

It felt wrong.

Lucia had always been easygoing; she rarely held a grudge.

In the past, if he just softened his tone and coaxed her a little, she

always forgave him.

His outstretched hand slowly dropped.

Maybe she had just fallen asleep.

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The explanation barely suppressed the unease twisting in his gut.

He hung the ointment on the doorknob.

He was still certain she would see it when she left in the morning.