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.

horrible son. This is

fifty-seven. What is she going to

that she has

it, Manny. It’s what

shot him a

knew her mother well, so she

Alessandra would

Emmanuel

asked.

take the

present it to Mackenzie-whether

wanted it or not.

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really want to thank Mom, come

soon as you can so we can take a look

her,” Roselynn added.

she had her doubts. Her

blitz marriage, after

“I understand.”

spun around

wasn’t that he had no

see how red

so, so

always wanted him

he had

take part

truth can never come to

the man

all of a

Alessandra would

if she found out that this was

leaving home, Emmanuel headed over to

as instructed by Mackenzie via

message.

was an upscale area in

thousand

many buildings

the apartment number was

the

I had the sense

Hall. I’d better

he left Mackenzie

despite it being six in the evening,

middle of

the CEO of Terence Group,

messages during meetings.

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long while and not

figured that the

didn’t allow her to

so he sent her a text

no reply. The sky had turned dark,

stomach ate at his

decided to

knew how aloof

to speak

hadn’t added him to

earlier.

her phone ring

screen impatiently.

an extremely rare

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who knew her understood that

every text that mattered to her, but when it

she didn’t bother responding

a video call would change her

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with

an unfamiliar profile picture

woman frowned and blocked

I ever give this person

hung up,

her and tried redialing

notification:

and messages

What the hell?

stared at the screen in a

time.

with me,

man was smart enough to

Terence was her

though he didn’t have Terence’s

called him earlier

look at his call history to

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