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.

son. This is her

fifty-seven. What is she going to

all that

it, Manny. It’s

him

her

that Alessandra would

if Emmanuel

asked.

man had to take the money to

and present it to

wanted it or not.

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thank Mom, come back

as soon as you can so we can take

her,” Roselynn added.

had her doubts. Her

a blitz marriage,

“I understand.”

Emmanuel spun around and left

that he had no emotions;

family to see how

so,

wanted

he had found himself a

part in

truth can never come to

the man muttered

terrified all of a

was no way Alessandra

out that this was all a

leaving home, Emmanuel

instructed by Mackenzie via

message.

place was an upscale area in

ten thousand per square

were many buildings there,

told him that the

the block

the

I’d better ask

he left Mackenzie

it being six

in the middle of a meeting at

the CEO of Terence Group,

messages during meetings.

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waiting for a long

that the woman’s

her to listen to

her a text

no reply. The sky had turned dark,

empty stomach ate at

decided to video

how aloof

to

added him

earlier. At

ring and glanced

screen impatiently.

an extremely rare

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her understood that

text that mattered to

didn’t

a video call would change

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someone with the username

an unfamiliar profile picture call

and

did I ever give this

how she hung up,

with her and

received a notification: This user

messages

What the hell?

at the screen in a daze

time.

messing with me,

the man was smart enough

was her

he didn’t have Terence’s number

him earlier

a quick look at his call history

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