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

is she going to

all that she has

Manny. It’s what

shot him

young woman knew her

that Alessandra would

Emmanuel didn’t do

asked.

to take the

it to

wanted it or not.

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you really want to thank Mom, come back here

as you can so we can take

her,” Roselynn added.

her doubts. Her brother

a blitz marriage, after

“I understand.”

spun around and

wasn’t that he had no emotions;

to see how red his eyes had

felt so, so

always wanted him to

instead, he had

to take part in a

truth can never come to light-at least not

the man muttered to

terrified all of a

no way Alessandra would

found out that this was

Emmanuel headed

by

message.

was an upscale area in Yeringham and

ten thousand per

many buildings there, but

the apartment number was

the block

the sense

City Hall. I’d

left Mackenzie a voice

despite it being six

middle of a meeting at

the CEO of Terence Group, she never checked

messages during meetings.

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for a long while and not receiving

Emmanuel figured that the

didn’t allow her to listen to his

sent her

was still no reply. The

stomach ate at

to video

aloof Mackenzie was

to speak

added him

earlier.

heard her phone ring and glanced at

screen impatiently.

an extremely rare

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who knew her understood

that mattered to her, but when it

she didn’t bother responding

a video call

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someone with the

with an unfamiliar profile picture

woman frowned and

ever

she hung

her and

a notification: This user only

messages

What the hell?

screen in a

time.

with

was smart

Terence was her

though he didn’t have Terence’s number

had called him earlier this morning, so all

at his call history to find

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