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. This

What is she

all that she has

It’s

shot him

knew her mother well, so

Alessandra would

Emmanuel didn’t do as

asked.

to take the money to ease

and present it to

wanted it or not.

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want to thank Mom,

you can so we can take a

her,” Roselynn added.

her doubts. Her brother had

a blitz

“I understand.”

Emmanuel spun around

had no

how red his

felt so, so guilty

mother had always wanted him to have a

had found himself a

to take part in a

come to light-at least not

world,” the man muttered to

terrified all

Alessandra

if she found out that this

leaving home, Emmanuel headed over to

as instructed by Mackenzie via

message.

an upscale area in

thousand per square

buildings

that the apartment number was

mentioning the block

the sense to

Hall. I’d better ask her

Mackenzie a voice

despite it being six in

in the middle of

CEO of Terence Group, she never checked

messages during meetings.

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a long while and not

figured that the

her to listen to his

he sent her a text message

was still no reply. The sky had turned

stomach ate at his

he decided to video

knew how aloof

to

added him to

numbers earlier.

phone ring and glanced at

screen impatiently.

an

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who knew her understood that

text that mattered to

she didn’t bother responding to,

a video call would change her

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with

an unfamiliar profile picture

woman frowned and blocked his

ever

hung up, Emmanuel

her and

received a notification: This user only

messages from

What the hell?

stared at the screen in a daze for

time.

messing with

was

Terence was her

though he didn’t have

called him earlier this morning,

a quick look at his call history

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