When Family Became a Place I Couldn’t Return To novel Chapter 285

Jessie was a hopeless romantic, and her ideas about love could be a little intense. Nelly could feel how fiercely Jessie cared, but she also worried that Jessie was going to get hurt. She tried to gently warn her. Life was long. Even if Casey was really gone, there was still so much ahead for Jessie.

Jessie understood that Nelly meant well. She knew all the reasons, but she was just different from Nelly. Letting go didn’t come easy. Time wouldn’t make her feelings fade. Neither would pain. If anything, every heartbreak just made her more stubborn, more determined to hold on. That was why she was so shaken by Nelly’s attitude. After all those years of loving someone, Nelly could just decide on a divorce and never look back.

“Actually, I don’t think Mr. Garland is completely over you. He’s been paying you a lot of attention lately…” Jessie finally spoke up as they reached the hospital doors.

Before, she’d supported Nelly’s decision to leave Brody. But if it were her, she’d need closure. She’d want answers. Even if it ended in divorce, there was no way she’d just hand Brody over to Sheila.

“Maybe. But none of that matters anymore. Whatever he thinks stopped mattering the night I decided to leave,” Nelly replied, her tone calm and steady.

“What if there’s just been some misunderstanding between you two?” Jessie tried again. “I used to think Mr. Garland liked Sheila, but now it doesn’t seem like he cares much about her at all.”

Jessie had taken one look at Sheila and knew she was trouble. In TV dramas, women like her always did whatever it took to tear apart a happy family. Art really does imitate life sometimes.

“There’s no misunderstanding. The only mistake would be believing a man can really change,” Nelly said, shutting down the conversation. She didn’t want to get into something she knew she couldn’t handle.

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