Chapter 80 This Is All Karma

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“Can’t you learn? Is it so difficult to learn to cook for the woman you love? Or is this the extent of your sincerity in pursuing me?”

She was deliberately making things hard for Elias in an attempt to let him have a taste of his own medicine.

Knowing that Amanda was filled with resentment, the man remained silent.

When she got up and left, he stood up as well, offering. Then let me send you home.”

“There’s no need. I want to take a cab back. You promised to fix your temper, remember?”

In reality, she was worried that they would run into Aiden if Elias sent her home.

The man fell silent once again. He did promise to fix his bad temper.

Suppressing his dissatisfaction, he followed Amanda out of the World Trade Center and watched her flag down a cab and leave.

He then drove his car out of the parking lot and followed the cab, wanting nothing more than to ensure her safe arrival home.

In truth, he understood why Amanda treated him this way.

He deserved such treatment for all the wrongs he had done.

After following Amanda all the way back to Galaxy Bay, Elias parked his car in a dark corner and stayed there for a long time.

As he recalled the various wrongdoings he had committed against Amanda four years ago, he couldn’t help realizing that each one of them was quite excessive.

His phone vibrated all of a sudden.

Frowning, he only glanced at it as he didn’t feel like answering the call. However, he quickly picked up the phone when he saw that it was from the nursing home.

“Did something happen?”

attending doctor came from the other end of the line. “Mr. Elias, your mother’s condition seems to be deteriorating. She keeps asking to see

“What happened

always been a mystery, having disappeared for many years. No one in his circle knew the

claimed to the public that his son and daughter-in-law had

was not true.

mother’s condition has been getting worse. I’m sure you

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It might be a good idea to come and

my way.”

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hanging up the phone, Elias immediately turned his car

home.

I haven’t visited my mother in

want to go, but every time he went, his presence would always trigger his mother and cause her mental state to deteriorate even

arrived at the South Hill Care after nearly

hour or its inherently lifeless atmosphere, the place

parking the car, he made his way to the upscale ward

he entered the room, he saw his mother’s frail figure in a patient’s gown as she sat in a rocking chair. muttering incessantly, “Waldo, all of this is retribution… Why do you still not believe in karma?”

Winters was the name

walked up to his mother and kneeled slowly,

it really you? Am I dreaming?” His mother looked at the handsome man before her and hesitated to believe what

a deep, resonant voice, Elias replied softly, “Mom, it’s

come! I was so

to have been genuinely frightened, seeing as how tears poured out of her

mother’s back. “What are you afraid of? Are you unhappy staying

and broke away from his embrace. “No, it’s not that. I’m afraid. retribution will fall upon

imagining things!” His face darkened the moment he heard

a firm hold. “Have you forgotten how your father died? It was all retribution. How could he do something as cruel as making someone else’s

ago, strange events had plagued the

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