Chapter 494 Carrying Her Wish Far Away

• Back then, the two of them were head over heels for each other—just one thin layer stood between them. All these years, Braxton Dempsey has regretted it every single moment. If only he’d had the guts back then to pierce that thin layer, to marry Aria Lavette outright, none of what followed would’ve happened. Or he could’ve ignored his family’s pressure and announced loud and clear that he loved Aria, instead of keeping it a secret crush. After all, no matter how wild those rich brats were, none of them would’ve dared touch the Dempsey family’s future daughter-in-law—dared touch the woman Braxton liked.
• But there’s no medicine for regret. Night after night, he jolts awake out of grief. He hates himself—hates the old him who feared his family’s disapproval. And when it all went down and he went crazy trying to find Aria, they locked him up. Then everything snowballed. He’s always felt the main blame was his to bear.
• “My sister’s spirit in heaven wouldn’t want to see you like this,” Timothy Lavette tried to talk him down. “You’re a son of the Dempsey Family. Your family isn’t ordinary. You’ll have to take over one day. How can you do that without an heir?”