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.

a horrible son.

already fifty-seven. What is she going to

all that she

It’s what Mom

shot him a

woman knew her mother well,

would surely

leaving if Emmanuel didn’t

asked.

man had to take the money

and present it

wanted it or not.

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want to thank Mom, come back here

as soon as you can so we

her,” Roselynn added.

her doubts.

blitz marriage,

“I understand.”

Emmanuel spun

no emotions;

how

so, so

wanted him to have a

instead, he had found himself a

to take part in a

truth can never come to

this world,” the man muttered

all of

Alessandra would be able to

found out that this was all

Emmanuel

instructed by Mackenzie

message.

upscale area in

thousand per square

were many buildings there,

him that the apartment

mentioning the block

the

outside City Hall. I’d

he left Mackenzie a voice

despite it being six

in the middle of a meeting

Terence Group,

messages during meetings.

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waiting for a long while and not receiving

Emmanuel figured that the

allow her to

her a text

no reply. The sky had turned dark,

ate at

he decided to

man knew how aloof Mackenzie was and

want to

hadn’t added him

earlier. At present,

phone ring and glanced

screen impatiently.

was an

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knew her understood

mattered to her, but when

she didn’t bother responding to,

call

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someone with the

with an unfamiliar

and

I ever give this person

how she hung up,

her and

a notification: This user only

messages from

What the hell?

screen in a daze

time.

with me, is

was smart

was her

though he didn’t have

called him earlier this morning, so all

quick look at his

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