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

fifty-seven. What is she going to

all that she

it, Manny. It’s

him

woman knew her mother well,

Alessandra would surely

Emmanuel didn’t do

asked.

take the money to ease

present it to Mackenzie-whether

wanted it or not.

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want to thank Mom, come back

wife as soon as you can so we can take

her,” Roselynn added.

had her doubts.

blitz marriage,

“I understand.”

spun around and left

that he had no emotions; he just

family to see how

so, so guilty

mother had always wanted him to have a

but instead, he had

part

can never come to

left this world,” the man muttered

terrified all of a

way Alessandra would be able to

out that this

home, Emmanuel headed over to

instructed by Mackenzie via

message.

upscale area

thousand per square

were many buildings there, but

that the

the

the sense to

outside City Hall. I’d better

Mackenzie a

six in the

middle of a

the CEO of Terence Group, she never checked

messages during meetings.

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waiting for a long while

Emmanuel figured that the

to listen to

her

The sky

empty stomach ate

he decided to video call

knew how aloof Mackenzie

want to speak to

added him to her

exchanged numbers earlier.

her phone ring

screen impatiently.

was an extremely rare

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understood that she

to her, but when it came

whom she didn’t bother

call would change

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with the

an unfamiliar profile picture

and blocked his number

did I ever

she hung up,

phone with her and tried redialing her

notification: This user only

messages from

What the hell?

at the screen in a daze for

time.

messing with me, is

was smart enough to

Terence was

he didn’t

him earlier this morning, so

was a quick look at his call history to

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