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.

I’m such a horrible son. This is her retirement fund!

she going to do

she

It’s

shot him

woman knew her mother well, so

Alessandra would surely

Emmanuel didn’t do as she

asked.

take

it

it or not.

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to thank Mom, come back here

so we can take a

her,” Roselynn added.

doubts. Her

blitz marriage, after

“I understand.”

around and left quickly.

that he had no emotions; he just

how red his eyes

so guilty

always wanted him to

had found himself a random

to take part in

truth can never come to

left this world,” the man muttered to himself,

all of a sudden.

would be able

she found out that this was

leaving home, Emmanuel headed over to

as instructed by Mackenzie via text

message.

upscale area in Yeringham

ten thousand per

many buildings there, but Mackenzie

him that the apartment number

mentioning the block

the sense to get

City Hall. I’d

left Mackenzie a voice

being six in

middle of a

CEO of Terence Group, she never

messages during meetings.

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a long while and

figured that the

to listen to his voice

her a text message

no reply. The sky

ate at his

he decided to video

man knew how aloof

to speak to

him to

exchanged numbers earlier.

phone ring and glanced

screen impatiently.

was an extremely rare occurrence.

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knew her understood

every text that mattered to her, but when it came to

bother responding to, not

a video call would

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someone with the

profile

blocked

did I ever give this person

up, Emmanuel knew Mackenzie

her phone with her and tried redialing her number.

a notification: This

and messages

What the hell?

in

time.

with me,

smart

was her grandfather.

he didn’t have

earlier this morning, so all it

quick look at his call history to find

Candy Crush

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