113 The truth about Valen

“Ehm…Maverick, I’ve been thinking… Well, uhm, I wanted to ask. What happened to Valen’s mom?” She looked at his side profile. She knew they weren’t close enough to talk about these things but curiosity got the best of her. D

“Why?” He asked without looking at her.

“I just… I’m wondering what would happen if she returns while we were still… you know, married.” She lowered her eyes at her wedding ring, then shifted her gaze to his fingers but there was no wedding ring on it.

This wasn’t the first time she noticed it. He doesn’t wear his wedding rings. Not that it mattered though, after all, the ring was never his size, so… but then, why was she feeling…disappointed? 3 Wait! Is this the feeling of disappointment? But why? It never mattered to her, so why is she suddenly feeling bad about it? This is stu pid. It must have been that she’s unknowingly stressed out because of Valen’s condition, yes, that’s right. She concluded.

“She left. She won’t return…she doesn’t want to return.” He replied with his eyes still on the road. He had searched everywhere for Vera but it’s like she disappeared into thin air. 5

Did he just explain to her? Like, he really answered her!

Jeslyn was elated. She immediately started to test the waters with the questions she had in mind for a long time, hoping he would answer a few, if not all.

“Did you two have a fight?”

“Hmm,”

“Oh…that’s bad. But you shouldn’t have let her leave. Why didn’t you go after her?”

thin line. After a long time, he parted his

knew at once that he didn’t want to talk about that, so she changed the topic. “Valen missed her a lot. Although he looked tough, that child is a bunny inside, just like

wants to cuddle up in the middle of his parents. Deep down, that boy wants to run around the compound laughing out loud with you and his mother playing with water guns. He wants to attend a regular school like every other kid out

had pulled up and was staring at her. Jeslyn coughed awkwardly and blushed due

“I’m

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have interfered in how you raise

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you?” He didn’t sound angry nor

not sure.”

married you so you

“Huh?”

in when Mulan was still there and didn’t fire her because I wanted him to see the difference

He didn’t believe he would start explaining his actions one day. Here he was trying to explain his

He used to ignore

you mean by ‘his remaining days’?” It finally

long

you mean?”

biggest shock of her life after hearing that. “Wh- wha- what do you

her without answering and took his phone from the phone stand. With one hand on the steering, the other

him and matt.

her lap

about the progress of the sickness. She stopped reading when she saw the part where Matt said the child only has between a year and two to live. He also said that the symptoms wouldn’t be frequent nor would they be serious. Sometimes

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