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

Chapter 138

Chapter 138

Perfect. I needed to pick his brain about investments anyway. [Sure.]

His reply was a cheerful emoji.

The gate’s charging station was barely warm when my mother–in–law’s caller ID flashed. Yvonne’s petulant voice came through: “Mom, when are you coming home? I told Dad to tell you to buy me a present. Are you gonna get me one?”

“No.” Flat. Final.

“Don’t you love me anymore?” Her voice sharpened. “Do you even love me?”

“Love’s transactional, sweetheart. Even maternal affection has terms.” Ice crystallized in my veins.

“What did I do wrong? You’re being weird again. I don’t get it!” Classic Yvonne, playing dumb to evade accountability. She understood. She just refused to.

call died abruptly. I didn’t redial.

evening. Straight from the airport, I headed to dinner. The

Maybach gleamed under the soft glow of the lot lights, its

white long–sleeved shirt that gave him that quiet, academic aura. The kind of man

maybe thirteen or fourteen, zeroed in on the Maybach like

darted over, circling the car with wide–eyed awe before turning to Nathan.

Nathan smiled. “Yeah.”

for life. “If I study till my books fall apart… can I drive

flicked to me, amused, before he

to his family, still craning

me, there was a flicker of shyness in his eyes, but he

I’m starving.” My tone was deliberately lazy. Around him, something in me shifted, an unapologetic assertive the

sing to

like a man who’d never learned to armor himself against the world. And humans, myself included, couldn’t resist testing

private booth, its warm lighting at odds with the tension coiling in the air. When we sat, he slid the menu toward me, fingers lingering

mind… just the two of us,” he murmured, eyes