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

is she going to

that she

Manny. It’s what

shot him

knew her mother well, so she

Alessandra would

Emmanuel didn’t do as

asked.

the man had to take the money to ease

it

wanted it or not.

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to thank Mom,

can

her,” Roselynn added.

her

a blitz marriage,

“I understand.”

that, Emmanuel spun

had no emotions; he just

to see how red his

so, so

had always wanted him to

but instead, he had found himself

part in a mere

never come to

the man muttered

terrified all

way Alessandra would

found out that this

leaving home, Emmanuel headed

as instructed by Mackenzie via

message.

was an upscale area in

ten thousand per

many buildings there, but

the apartment number

the block

the sense to get

I’d better ask

Mackenzie a voice

being six in

in the middle of a

the CEO of Terence

messages during meetings.

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for a long while and not receiving

figured that

allow her to listen to his

her

reply. The sky had turned

empty stomach ate at

he decided to video

knew how aloof Mackenzie was and

want to speak to

him to her

numbers earlier.

heard her phone ring and

screen impatiently.

was an extremely rare

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knew her understood

to

didn’t bother responding to,

a video call would change her

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someone with the username

an unfamiliar profile picture call

and blocked his number

ever give

hung up, Emmanuel knew

her and tried redialing

notification: This user

and messages from

What the hell?

in a daze for

time.

with

the man was smart enough to

was her

didn’t have

him earlier this

look at his

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