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.

a horrible son. This is her

is she going

that she

Manny. It’s what Mom

him a

young woman knew her mother

Alessandra would surely

if Emmanuel didn’t

asked.

man had to take the

it to Mackenzie-whether

wanted it or not.

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you really want to thank

soon as you can so we can take

her,” Roselynn added.

her

a blitz marriage,

“I understand.”

that, Emmanuel spun around

that he had no emotions;

family to see how red

felt so,

wanted him

instead, he had found

to take part in

truth can never come

the man muttered

terrified all of

was no way Alessandra would be able to

found out that this

Emmanuel headed over

instructed by Mackenzie

message.

was an upscale area

ten thousand per square

were many buildings there, but Mackenzie

told him that the apartment number was

the

thing I had the sense

Hall. I’d

left Mackenzie a

six

middle of

of Terence Group, she never

messages during meetings.

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for a long while and not

figured that

didn’t allow her to listen

her a

The sky had turned dark,

empty stomach ate

to video call

man knew how aloof

want to speak to

hadn’t added him to her contacts

earlier. At

ring and glanced at

screen impatiently.

an extremely

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her understood that she would

that mattered to her, but when it

whom she didn’t bother responding

call would

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with the username

unfamiliar

and blocked his number

did I ever give this person my

hung up, Emmanuel knew

with her

a notification: This

messages from

What the hell?

at the screen in a daze

time.

messing with me, is

the man was

Terence was her

though he didn’t have Terence’s

called him earlier

was a quick look at his call history to find

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