Goodbye My Arrogant Ex (Marguerite and Leonard) novel Chapter 286

Leonard knew their family all too well. For them, the company always came first—his grandmother barely even registered in their eyes.

“Is the company really that important?” Marguerite asked, her voice tinged with disbelief. “More important than their own mother? She’s old now—shouldn’t every day she survives be a day filled with happiness? Is that really so much to ask?”

She simply couldn’t understand how people could be so heartless. But even if she wanted to say something, she was still an outsider. No matter what she did, it would only stir up more trouble, making everyone even unhappier. So she kept her thoughts to herself, sharing them only with Leonard.

“People as selfish as them would never consider any of that,” Leonard replied. “If they cared half as much as you do, things wouldn’t have gotten so bad, and your grandmother and I wouldn’t have had to burn so many bridges.”

His grandmother’s heart had been broken long ago. The only way left was to cut ties completely.

Marguerite let out a helpless sigh, resigned to the fact that there was nothing she could do.

By the time they got home, it was already late. Marguerite found herself still worried about Hogan, wondering just how things were progressing between him and that woman. Had Hogan said anything to her yet? What was really going on?

After turning it over in her mind for a while, she finally decided to call him.

“Where are you right now? Is this a good time to talk?”

He’d never felt so lost before, never cared this much about something—or someone. He had no idea how to handle it, no idea how to get through to her.

It had been years since he’d let himself feel anything at all. He’d forgotten how to love, forgotten how to manage these messy, complicated emotions.

“I’m really sorry,” Marguerite said at last, her voice full of regret. “If I hadn’t told you, maybe you wouldn’t be so torn up about all this. It’s my fault—I should never have started digging into things in the first place.”

Her heart ached for Hogan. She truly wished things could have been different.