Too Late for Regret novel Chapter 63

Not a Love Story

Chapter 63

Charlie’s POV

Sasha and Roger’s younger sister thought that what she said was an insult to us, which was amusing. I see that Roger and his father have both realized that I’m not joking around. They wanted to leave, but Joyce wouldn’t let them. She was set on trying to humiliate Ana, even if she wasn’t allowed into the venue. She was fine with shaming her from out here, in front of our guests. I didn’t mind her doing it either; the higher the climb, the harder the fall. I was going to make sure that her fall was going to be a long one.

“Regina, you don’t know what you’re talking about. Please, stop speaking,” Roger quietly stated.

“Roger, please, what can she do? She’s having to marry to bodyguard to save face. The whole city is about to find out that no one wants her. He’s handsome, but he is more of a guy on the side, rather than a husband. He is so far below you, Roger. I honestly can’t believe that she painted herself into the corner like this. She would have had a good life if she had just stayed in her lane and not expected to be your wife. She only has herself

to blame for the situation that she’s in,” Regina responded before eyeing me again with a smirk. She winked

at me before stepping back at the look on my face.

“Funny, that doesn’t sound like the woman I know. She is kind, intelligent, and she cares about people.

Something you three seem to be lacking. Sasha, you were coming to a wedding, not the club. Regina, you

have no manners or breeding. Joyce, you are one of the most vicious women that I have ever met. Your

husband and son totally outshine you. I can see just how embarrassed they are at the moment. Seems like. your whole family isn’t lacking in intelligence, just you three,” I told them.

“How dare you say something like that to me. I have more class in my pinkie finger than you have in your

whole body,” Joyce snapped back.

“Don’t get mad, Mrs. Cook, it’s just an observation. If you want, I can tell you how I really feel,” I said as I

stepped down another step to step closer to them.

“Stay away from me! Are you trying to intimidate me? I didn’t come here to be assaulted,” Joyce cried out,

looking around for help.

“I wouldn’t dirty my hands by touching you. You are a vile human being, Mrs. Cook, and definitely not worthy of my time. I just wanted to get closer to you to say something privately, but since you want everyone to hear, so be it,” I said as I stepped back up another step. This was what I wanted, for everyone to know what a piece of work she truly was.

“You don’t have to do that. We will leave,” Roger responded and turned to go.

I made sure that my voice carried as I spoke, “You think you know so much about Elizabeth, but you have no idea who she is or what she did for Roger. Let me enlighten you. You were so proud of Sasha here, and her one international award. Elizabeth has four of them. She also has eight designer of the year awards. Sasha has none. So please explain why you thought that this woman,” I motioned towards Sasha, “Was better than Elizabeth. Why did you value her so much? Don’t give me the excuse that she’s carrying your grandchild because she’s not. Elizabeth and I have known that for over two weeks. Yet she’s here, at a black–tie wedding, wearing a dress like that. You value propriety and appearance so much, yet clearly don’t mind the scandal Sasha brings with her. But I have to admit that she was an excellent choice for Roger. They both deserve

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each other, one cheater deserves another, don’t you think?”

I knew that people would start hanging out around us after they passed the checkpoint. Everyone enjoys drama, especially the wealthy, as long as it doesn’t involve them. I was taking this opportunity to destroy what Joyce cared about the most. Not her family, her reputation. To do that, I needed people to know how she operated.

“You don’t know anything about them at all. Roger wasn’t married, and he found his first love. They reconnected. They love each other very deeply. I know that Elizabeth must be hurt, but attacking us and our character won’t change anything. Roger said we will leave, and we will. We only came because Roger felt so bad about what he had done. He wanted to fix things between them, as he does care very deeply about Elizabeth. He came to repair their relationship, not to have his character viciously attacked,” Joyce argued.

She was now realizing that she and her family were on display. The narrative being given was not beneficial to her or her family. She was about to flee, but I’m not letting them go quite so easily.

“Roger isn’t a good man, or a good business owner. He let Elizabeth bring his dream to life, and then betrayed her. What else would you call it? He knew his actions were wrong, yet he laughed about them. I know he did, as I have seen the video. All four of them thought what he had planned for Elizabeth was funny. She created his company, and he couldn’t wait to not just replace her, but attempt to steal her hard work away from her. He wanted to marry her today, but never file the marriage. Don’t act shocked, Joyce. That was your plan that he was carrying out. Except for your husband and your youngest son, your family is completely despicable,” I

announced loudly. Gasps rang out, even from the cameramen and the reporters.

“You can’t say something like that about me. It’s a complete lie. I’m going to sue you for slander. You can’t just make stuff up and say what you want. You will spend the rest of your life behind bars for what you just

said. You won’t have the money to pay for my pain and suffering at being disgraced in front of my friends and

fellow members of society. You can’t just go around making things up. He’s lying about everything. The only

truth he said was that Roger and Elizabeth were engaged. Sasha and Roger reconnected and found their love

was still there. You can’t fault him for wanting to be with the woman he loves, now can you? How heartless

can you be?” Joyce screeched out. She was trying to clear her name, but I wasn’t going to allow that to

happen.

“I’m afraid you’re wrong about that, too, Joyce. I guess I need to remind you, Elizabeth owed that villa. You remember, don’t you, the villa you had her arrested for selling? It only had her name registered, as she was

the one who purchased it by herself. Once they got married, she was going to add Roger’s name. She had a

great number of valuable iterns in her villa. Paintings and statues, to name a few. So she did what any homeowner would do to protect her beloved artwork. She added discrete cameras to the main living area to safeguard her prized possessions. It’s a normal practice among the wealthy to do so,” I stated.

I glanced around to see everyone hanging on my every word. Most of them nodded in agreement with my statement about protecting their own artwork. I looked back at the group to see Joyce realizing that they’re conversations in the living room had been recorded. I can see that Roger and Sasha are also looking pale. They were shocked to discover that their actions in the living room had been captured on camera. My smirk gave them the answer they were worried about.

“You can’t film people without their knowledge like that. We were in our own home. A certain level of privacy is expected,” Sasha stated before breaking out in tears. “Those were private moments between me and my husband. She had no right to record us.”

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“First of all, you lived there for two months before you married Roger. Second of all, it was never your house. or Roger’s. He was allowed to live there because Elizabeth wanted it to be their home. Not for you to play house in. You two are the ones at fault, yet you want to shift the blame onto an innocent person. Her only mistake was loving Roger. She believed in him, she trusted him, she did everything in her power to give him. what he wanted. Only for him to turn around and try to take everything from her. She even used her own money to start his company from the ground up. With a love like that, who needs enemies?” I asked.

Roger looked guilty. But Sasha just shrugged like it didn’t matter. Her tears that she had summoned so quickly just a few minutes ago were now gone. Her makeup looked fine. It was apparent to everyone here that she hadn’t actually been crying; she was just pretending. Her short skirt and tight clothing only made her

look even worse in this

“She’s a big girl; she’ll get over it. She forced Roger to divorce me so he could marry her. Isn’t that enough? She is costing me and our child to have a broken home. She clearly doesn’t care about Roger at all. She already replaced him with you. So how exactly is she suffering? She’s tearing down Roger’s business as we speak. So why should any of us feel sorry for her? She’s nothing but a vindictive b***h. She sent you out here to humiliate us in front of everyone. I don’t believe that she had cameras in our house. If she did, why would she wait to confront Roger? I think you’re making this whole thing up to try to make us look bad. We were in

love; how was that wrong of us?” Sasha asked.

“You were never in love, Sasha. Your boyfriend didn’t want the child you were pregnant with, so you had to find someone willing to take care of you. You left Roger years ago after college when he told you that he loved you. He didn’t have any money at the time, and you needed a man to take care of you. Someone you felt was more worthy of you and your time. If you had actually loved Roger, you would have stayed here and beer: with him, but you conveniently left that out. Your story is not a love story,” I replied.

“I do love him. I wanted to stay married to Roger, but Elizabeth forced us apart. She demanded that Roger leave us, knowing that I was pregnant with his child,” Sasha cried out. Cue the waterworks, right on time.

“That child is not mine. You are pregnant by your ex, don’t forget we had a test done. You are nothing but a slut. You slept with your ex on our honeymoon. That’s the reason for our divorce, not Elizabeth. You won’t accept any blame in this when you’re the one who caused the whole thing. I was fooled by your innocent act, until we got married, and then you changed. So, stop putting it on anyone else. You are the most vicious woman I know. You kept me under your thumb using s*x, but I know now it wasn’t love. It was just lust, and when I look at you now, all I feel is disgust,” Roger snapped out.

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#Vote# Going to hear from Joyce’s POV tomorrow.