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

Chapter 131

Jared got sentimental, which was so unlike him that it threw me off balance.

I stared, my usual quick–witted deflections failing me. Of all the things I’d prepared for, him asking if I still cared wasn’t one of them. I’d assumed indifference was our unspoken agreement.

“Seriously? You’re overcomplicating things,” I said, forcing a smirk.

A flicker of annoyance crossed his face. “You’ve been different since you said you were going back to work.”

“Different how? I’m the same person.” I tilted my head, playing dumb.

“I can’t pinpoint it, but you’re not the same.” Jared was a master at keeping people at arm’s length, but he had a razor–sharp intuition. Apparently, he’d picked up on the fact that I’d stopped loving him.

“You’re imagining things. I’ve just been busy, that’s all.” I threw his old excuse back at him, my voice flat.

He looked even more upset. He pressed his lips into a thin line and said nothing.

Wasn’t he the one who’d declared love irrelevant? Now he wanted to rewrite the rules? If love was optional, he sure as hell didn’t get to demand it

The car glided smoothly down the boulevard, and after a few blocks,

are you sorry for?” I

fell silent again, his eyes fixed on the road

other day. It said there are only two things

sprouted horns. Jared? Giving a TED Talk

“One: find

pour everything into your work. But when it sets, you go home and wrap your arms around the one you love. Purpose and

not the Jared I knew. When had he had time to wax

After my own heart stopped, he was probably busy throwing Tracy the blowout wedding she’d always wanted. Yvonne would’ve been in the front

about it sent an arctic wave through me–palms,

“go home and wrap your arms around the one you love,” it had to be a

and angled toward me. “What do you think?”

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