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 her retirement

fifty-seven. What is she

all that she

it, Manny. It’s

him a

her mother

Alessandra would surely

Emmanuel didn’t

asked.

take the money

it

wanted it or not.

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you really want to thank Mom, come back

as you can so we can

her,” Roselynn added.

had her

blitz

“I understand.”

that, Emmanuel spun around and

wasn’t that he had no emotions; he just

how red his eyes had

so, so

had always wanted

he had

to take part in a

truth can never come to light-at least

this world,” the man muttered to

all

way Alessandra would

found out that this was

Emmanuel headed over

by Mackenzie

message.

an upscale area in

thousand per

many buildings there, but Mackenzie

the

mentioning the block

I had the

outside City Hall. I’d

left Mackenzie a

six in

of

the CEO of Terence Group,

messages during meetings.

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waiting for a long while and not receiving

Emmanuel figured that

to listen

so he sent her

still no reply. The sky had turned

ate at

he decided to video

man knew how aloof Mackenzie

want to speak

him to

exchanged numbers earlier. At

her phone ring and

screen impatiently.

was an

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who knew her understood that she would

to her, but when

didn’t bother

video call

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someone with the

an unfamiliar profile

woman frowned and blocked

ever give this person my

hung

her phone with her and tried redialing her

notification: This user only

messages

What the hell?

stared at the screen in a daze

time.

messing with me, is

man was smart

Terence was

he didn’t have Terence’s

earlier this

at his call history to

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