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.

son.

already fifty-seven. What is she

all that

Manny. It’s

shot him

knew her mother

Alessandra would surely fear

leaving if Emmanuel didn’t do

asked.

man had to take the money to ease

it to Mackenzie-whether

wanted it or not.

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you really want to thank Mom, come back here

you can

her,” Roselynn added.

truth, she had her doubts.

a blitz marriage, after

“I understand.”

Emmanuel spun

no emotions; he

how red his

so, so

wanted him to have

had

to take part in

never come to light-at

the man

terrified all of

no way Alessandra

she found out that

Emmanuel

as instructed by Mackenzie via

message.

was an upscale area in

ten thousand

many buildings there, but

that the apartment

the block

the sense to

I’d better ask

Mackenzie a voice

it being six in

the middle of a meeting

CEO of Terence

messages during meetings.

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for a long while and

Emmanuel figured that the

to listen

he sent her a

no reply. The

stomach ate at

decided to

knew how aloof Mackenzie was

want to

added him to her contacts

exchanged numbers earlier.

heard her phone ring and glanced at

screen impatiently.

an extremely

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her understood that she would

mattered to her, but when

didn’t bother responding

a video call

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someone with the

with an unfamiliar

and blocked his

ever give this person my

hung up,

with her and tried redialing her

he received a notification: This

messages

What the hell?

screen in a

time.

with me,

the man was smart enough

was her

he didn’t have Terence’s number

latter had called him earlier this morning,

a quick look at his call history to

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