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?‘

stood up right away and said to

“I don’t really know

lose, I’ll take the blame,” Jared said, really knowing how to sweet–talk

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

of asking me to move, he braced himself beside me,

over me, and there was something undeniably flirty in the way his cool,

air.

getting a girl hooked, Jared really knew what he was doing. I got hooked the

showering me with expensive gifts on every holiday and booking romantic restaurants for every meal. Within three months, he had bought me cars and

villa he purchased, yet I still owned three other properties he gave me. The first was a four- bed, two–bath flat downtown, handed over exactly three months after

pure impulse. One New Year, driving home from his

New Year’s morning, I found a ribbon–tied key on my pillow. He’d

down my defenses with his money. So sure, maybe I could call him a jerk, but

muttered, rolling a

my hand, and tossed it out for

1/2

Victoria’s luck is off the charts. Don’t think we’re