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

Chapter 144

Men were baffling creatures. Even after years together, I still couldn’t fully decipher Jared. What was the point of this sudden poetic introspection?

Sweet talk had never been his style–hell, he wasn’t even good at it. The Jared I knew was unshakably composed, a man who strategized his way out of every problem with cold precision.

A mind that sharp, paired with emotions? Dangerous. It made him twice as lethal, twice as magnetic. What woman could resist that kind of

duality?

“You’ve been awfully smooth lately, Jared,” I said, clasping my hands behind my back with an innocent tilt of my head. “Who’s been coaching

you?”

His expression flickered–just for a second–before freezing over. The moment his sincerity was questioned, its value crumbled.

out, taking another irritated

shrugged. “Nothing at all. But you’re awfully quick

the cigarette violently and turned away. “Let’s

the eye. Good. Jared’s fickleness was

I’d finally adopted the same

Once your standards rise, even the most expertly crafted lies

the late–night drive. Exhausted, I leaned back and

pulling me against a firm chest. I blinked awake to find

bitterness twisted inside me. Now he decides to be affectionate–now, when I no longer love him. Where was this tenderness during

I’d tried to seduce him–fresh from the shower, wearing nothing but his dress shirt, slipping

also been resting his eyes, frowned as his arms emptied. He cracked one lid open, studying me with that unnerving

nothing, just closed his eyes again,