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.

died abruptly. I didn’t

landed in Hachester, it was past six in the evening. Straight from the airport, I headed to

was nearly empty, except for one impossible–to–miss vehicle. Nathan’s Maybach gleamed under the

long–sleeved shirt that gave him that quiet,

the restaurant. A boy, maybe thirteen or fourteen, zeroed in on the Maybach like a

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

Nathan smiled. “Yeah.”

unlocked a cheat code for life. “If I study till

before he clapped the boy’s shoulder.

pranced back to his family, still craning his neck

there was a flicker of shyness in his eyes, but he held my stare anyway. “You

tone was deliberately lazy. Around him,

sing to

was the way he radiated earnestness, like a man who’d never learned to armor himself against the world. And humans, myself included, couldn’t resist

He led me to a private booth, its warm lighting at odds with the tension coiling

don’t mind… just the two of us,”