Love At The Wrong Table

Chapter 6

Chapter 6

“I’ll tell you about it after talking it through with her,

Mom.”

Emmanuel decided to leave things be for now.

Since he couldn’t agree or refuse, he had no choice but

to take it one step at a time.

“All right, then,” Alessandra responded. “Well, how

about you move out and go live with her today? Girls

love it when guys are romantic. It’s your wedding night,

so you’d better not leave her on her own! Take good

care of her. Do you understand?”

Wedding night? Emmanuel scoffed internally.

If that hadn’t even crossed his mind, then Mackenzie

certainly wouldn’t have thought of it either.

The woman had never even thought about

consummating their marriage.

There’s just no way it’d ever happen!

Still, he nodded at his mother and sister. “I’ll be off,

then. Take care of yourselves. Call me whenever you

need me.”

That alone was enough to make Alessandra and

Roselynn tear up again.

Given how Emmanuel’s father had died young, and the

two women had watched Emmanuel grow up, seeing

the only man in the family leave home made their

hearts heavy.

“Don’t cry, Mom. How are you going to have grandkids

if Manny doesn’t stay with your daughter-in-law?”

Roselynn urged, even though she couldn’t stop crying

herself.

The women spent a long while helping Emmanuel

pack his valuables.

Alessandra shoved a bank card into his hands just as

he was about to leave.

“What are you doing, Mom?”

The man hastily gave it back, knowing that his mother

only had one card. It was baffling that she was

handing him her social security fund.

There was no way he could accept it.

“Take it,” Alessandra insisted. “Your wife agreed to

marry you without you giving her any betrothal gifts.

She even bought a place for you two so you could live

together, so don’t let her down. Give her everything she

deserves! There are about sixty thousand on this card.

Go buy your wife a ring and some jewelry. Do you hear

me?”

Upon hearing that, Emmanuel felt his nose burn.

such a horrible son. This

fifty-seven. What is she going to do

all that

Manny. It’s what Mom

shot him

her mother

would surely fear

Emmanuel didn’t

asked.

to take the

present it to

wanted it or not.

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want to thank Mom, come

wife as soon as you can so we

her,” Roselynn added.

truth, she had her

a blitz marriage, after

“I understand.”

spun around

that he had no emotions; he just

see how

so,

wanted him to have

instead, he had found himself a

part in a mere

come to light-at

world,” the man

all

Alessandra

found out that this

Emmanuel

instructed by Mackenzie

message.

was an upscale area in Yeringham and

thousand per

buildings there, but Mackenzie

the apartment

the block

had the sense

City Hall. I’d

Mackenzie a voice

despite it being six in the evening,

of

the CEO of Terence

messages during meetings.

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a long while and

figured that

allow her to listen to his

so he sent her

reply. The

stomach ate at

to

knew how aloof

to speak to

hadn’t added him to her

numbers earlier.

heard her phone ring

screen impatiently.

an

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who knew her understood

mattered to her,

didn’t

a video call would change

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someone with

unfamiliar profile picture call

and blocked his number

did I ever

how she hung up, Emmanuel knew

her and tried redialing

notification:

messages from

What the hell?

the screen in

time.

with me, is

was smart enough

Terence was her

didn’t

earlier

a quick look at his call history to

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