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

she going to

that she

It’s

him

her mother well,

that Alessandra would

if Emmanuel

asked.

man had to take the money to ease

present it

wanted it or not.

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thank Mom, come back

as you can

her,” Roselynn added.

she had her doubts. Her

blitz marriage,

“I understand.”

spun around

wasn’t that he had no emotions; he just

how red

felt so,

had always wanted him

had found himself a

take part in a mere

truth can never come to light-at least not

the man muttered to

terrified all of

way Alessandra would be able to

found out that this

Emmanuel

by

message.

was an upscale

ten thousand per

buildings there, but Mackenzie

that the apartment

mentioning the

thing I had the sense to

I’d better ask

left Mackenzie

being six

the middle of

CEO of Terence Group, she never

messages during meetings.

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a long while

figured that

didn’t allow her to listen to

her

no reply. The sky had turned

ate at

to video call

aloof Mackenzie was and

to speak

him to her

numbers earlier.

heard her phone ring and glanced

screen impatiently.

was an extremely rare

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her understood that she

to

didn’t

a video call would change

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someone with the

an unfamiliar profile picture

woman frowned and blocked his number

did I ever give this

how she hung up, Emmanuel

her phone with her and tried

notification: This user

and messages from

What the hell?

the screen in a daze for a

time.

with me,

the man was

Terence was her

though he didn’t have Terence’s

called him earlier this morning, so all

look at

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