Goodbye, Mr. Regret novel Chapter 261

“You startled me! For a second, I thought someone had broken into your house.”

Vince hadn’t expected the man in front of him to understand sign language.

Just then, The Zimmerman Group’s chief legal counsel, Mr. Marquis, walked in.

“Mr. Zimmerman, good afternoon.”

“Marquis, please, come in.”

Vince gestured for Marquis to step inside.

Hearing Vince address the newcomer as a lawyer, Herbert couldn’t help glancing at Jessica.

Jessica pressed her lips together, a little embarrassed. She hadn’t asked Herbert for help—instead, she’d had Vince find her an attorney. Who would’ve thought they’d bump into each other like this?

Herbert had already told her he wasn’t afraid of Timothy, but she’d gone to someone else anyway. He was bound to misunderstand, to think she didn’t trust him. For a man, that sort of thing stings the ego.

But Mrs. Reynolds had shown up in person that day and explained everything. Jessica couldn’t let her own problems drive a wedge between Herbert and his family—or worse, drag The Wheeler Group, who had nothing to do with her, into the mess.

When Jessica glanced at Herbert, his expression was clearly a little sour.

Thankfully, Marquis and Vince couldn’t read sign language. She signed to Herbert: “Let me speak with the lawyer first, then I’ll explain everything, okay?”

Herbert pressed his lips together and nodded.

Vince didn’t know Herbert, but he could tell—man to man—that there was nothing ordinary about Herbert’s attitude toward Jessica.

Jessica signed the question, and Herbert voiced it for her.

Marquis replied, “Generally speaking, no. But if it has seriously damaged the marriage, it could be considered evidence of an affair.”

In truth, Jessica hadn’t wanted to bring up Timothy and Sheila’s relationship in the divorce proceedings—it made her feel petty, as if she were jealous of Sheila.

Vince understood what she was getting at. Her question made it clear she suspected something between Timothy and Sheila. He leaned in close to Jessica and whispered, “Jessy, Sheila and Timothy are related. Even if you can show he gave her gifts or acted overly familiar, it’ll probably be dismissed as normal between relatives.”

Watching Vince whisper so openly to Little Mute, Herbert was fuming.

Jessica’s anxiety about the divorce showed in her urgent signing: “If none of those things Marquis mentioned apply, does that mean I can’t win the case?”