After being reborn, I make up my mind to stop chasing after my husband and daughter

Chapter 99

I pouted, “I feel like I’m just some eye–candy you brought along, with everyone sizing me up and making comments.”

I let my feelings show, thinking Jared would brush it off like before and tell me not to be so petty, that it was just his friends joking around.

But instead, Jared shot a stern look at the other three guys. “Don’t joke about Victoria like that anymore. She’s sensitive.”

I was stunned for a moment, but the three guys at the table got the hint and immediately apologized to me.

“Sorry, Victoria. We were just being jerks, no offense meant.”

“Yeah, you’re Jared’s wife. We’re happy to have you here.”

“Jared, I bet Victoria’s bored. Why don’t you give up your seat and let her play a couple of rounds?”

Jared caught my wrist with one hand while drawing a card with the other. “Sit down. You’re not eye–candy.”

He gently tugged me back into my chair, but his words kept echoing in my mind. ‘You’re not eye–candy. Is he fooling me again?‘

rang. He stood up right away and said to me, “You

quickly waved my hands. “I don’t

yours. If you lose, I’ll take the

was just beginner’s luck, but I actually won two rounds in a row. The guys immediately got all fired up, eager to

some point, and instead of asking me to move, he braced himself beside me, leaning

undeniably flirty in the way his cool,

air.

girl hooked, Jared really knew what he

on every holiday and booking romantic restaurants for every meal. Within three months,

three other properties he gave me. The first was a four- bed, two–bath flat downtown,

impulse. One New Year, driving home from his mother’s, I’d

a ribbon–tied key

maybe I could call him a jerk, but he was never

muttered, rolling a card

Jared reached over, plucked a card from my hand, and tossed it out for me.

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the charts. Don’t think