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

What is she

that

Manny. It’s what

him

young woman knew her mother well, so

would surely

leaving if Emmanuel didn’t do

asked.

man had to take the

and present it to

wanted it or not.

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want to thank Mom, come

as you can so

her,” Roselynn added.

had her doubts. Her brother had

blitz marriage,

“I understand.”

spun

he had no

see how red his eyes

felt so,

mother had always wanted him

had

to take part

never come to

world,” the man muttered

terrified all of a

way Alessandra would be able

that this was

leaving home, Emmanuel

as instructed by

message.

place was an upscale area in Yeringham

thousand per square

many buildings there, but Mackenzie

told him that the apartment

mentioning the block

the sense to

City Hall. I’d better ask her

left Mackenzie a

six in the evening,

the middle of a meeting at

of Terence Group, she

messages during meetings.

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a long while and not

that the

didn’t allow her to listen

her a text

reply. The

empty stomach ate at his

he decided to

knew how aloof Mackenzie

want to speak to

him to her contacts

exchanged numbers earlier. At

heard her phone ring and glanced at

screen impatiently.

an extremely rare

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understood that she would

every text that mattered to her, but

whom she didn’t bother

call

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with the username

unfamiliar

frowned and blocked

did I ever give this

she hung

her phone with her and tried redialing her

notification: This

messages

What the hell?

the screen in a daze for a

time.

messing with me, is

man was

was

though he didn’t

had called him earlier this morning, so

a quick look at his

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