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.

fifty-seven. What is she going to

that she

it, Manny. It’s

shot him a

her mother well, so

that Alessandra would surely fear

leaving if Emmanuel didn’t do

asked.

take

and present it to

wanted it or not.

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you really want to thank Mom, come back here

you can so we can take a look

her,” Roselynn added.

she had her doubts.

a blitz marriage,

“I understand.”

that, Emmanuel spun

wasn’t that he had no emotions; he

see how red his

felt so, so

always wanted him to have

but instead, he had found himself

to take part in a

come to light-at least not

the

terrified all of a

was no way Alessandra

she found out that this was

leaving home, Emmanuel headed over to

as instructed by Mackenzie via

message.

upscale area in Yeringham and

thousand

buildings there,

the apartment

mentioning the block

the sense to get

City Hall. I’d better ask

he left Mackenzie

despite it being six in the evening,

middle of a meeting

of Terence

messages during meetings.

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a long

Emmanuel figured that the

allow her to listen

so he sent her a

reply. The

ate at

to

aloof Mackenzie was and

want to

added him to her contacts

numbers earlier. At present,

phone ring and glanced at

screen impatiently.

was an extremely rare

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understood that she would

text that mattered to her, but when it

didn’t bother responding

a video call

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with

an unfamiliar

frowned and

I ever give this

how she hung

with her and tried redialing

he received a notification: This user

and messages

What the hell?

screen in a daze for

time.

messing with me, is

was smart enough to

was

though he didn’t have Terence’s number

earlier

look at his call history

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