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.

horrible son.

already fifty-seven. What is she going to do

that she has

it, Manny. It’s what

him

her mother well,

that Alessandra would

Emmanuel didn’t do

asked.

to take

present it to Mackenzie-whether

wanted it or not.

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you really want to thank Mom, come

can so we can

her,” Roselynn added.

truth, she had her doubts.

a blitz

“I understand.”

spun around and left

had no

family to see how red

so,

had always wanted

but instead, he had

take part in

never come to light-at

world,” the man

terrified all

Alessandra would be

out that this was

leaving home, Emmanuel headed over to

instructed by

message.

an upscale area in Yeringham

ten thousand

buildings there,

told him that the apartment number was

the block

had the sense to get

City Hall. I’d better ask

Mackenzie a voice

it being six in

the middle of a

of Terence

messages during meetings.

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long while

figured that

to listen to his

sent her a

still no reply. The sky had turned

ate at

he decided to video

aloof Mackenzie

want to speak to

hadn’t added him to her contacts

earlier.

heard her phone ring and glanced at

screen impatiently.

an extremely

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her understood that

every text that mattered to her, but when it

whom she didn’t bother responding to,

call would

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with the

an unfamiliar profile picture call

woman frowned and blocked his number

When did I ever give this person my

how she hung

with her and tried redialing her

a notification: This user

messages

What the hell?

the screen in a daze

time.

messing with me, is

man was smart enough to

Terence was

though he didn’t have Terence’s

latter had called him earlier this morning, so all

at his

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