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 is

fifty-seven. What is she going to

all that she has

It’s what Mom

him

woman knew her mother well, so she

Alessandra would surely fear

if Emmanuel didn’t

asked.

take

present it to

wanted it or not.

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you really want to thank Mom, come

you can so we can take

her,” Roselynn added.

her doubts.

a blitz marriage, after

“I understand.”

Emmanuel spun around and left

that he had no emotions;

to see how red his eyes

felt so, so

mother had always wanted him to have a

had found

take part in

truth can never come to light-at least

world,” the man

terrified all of a

was no way Alessandra

she found out that

leaving home, Emmanuel

as instructed by Mackenzie

message.

an upscale area in Yeringham and

thousand per square

many buildings there, but

him that the apartment

the

thing I had the sense to

City Hall. I’d better

Mackenzie a voice

six in the evening, Mackenzie

of a meeting at

Terence Group, she never

messages during meetings.

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for a long while

that

her to listen

so he sent her

still no reply. The sky

ate

to video

aloof Mackenzie

to speak

him to

exchanged numbers earlier.

phone ring and glanced

screen impatiently.

was an extremely rare

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her understood that she would

every text that mattered to her, but when it came

didn’t bother responding to,

video call would

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with the

unfamiliar profile picture

and blocked

ever

hung

phone with her

a notification:

messages from

What the hell?

stared at the screen in a daze

time.

messing with

the man was

Terence was

he didn’t have Terence’s

earlier this morning, so

quick look at his call history

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