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

Chapter 149

This was the first time since my rewind that things had gotten truly icy between us, and it wasn’t my plan. But Jared stayed out all night. Did that business excuse make him automatically right?

In my previous life, I swallowed every slight until it made me sick. Yes, I love Jared’s money, but scarfing down garbage is still disgusting.

“Jared,” I said, meeting his eyes, “every guy dreams of a second home and a new woman, same way some folks think a man only really hits the jackpot once his wife’s in the grave.

“Problem is, I’m not dead yet. I keep up your image; the least you can do is respect my feelings.”

Shock rippled across his face. The pliable girl who once worshiped him had grown venomous fangs.

laughing at myself. “Women lose because we buy into ‘forever and ever, just us two.‘

brows knit as if he’d forgotten how to

Tracy to help because she speaks

He did need the support, and Tracy’s polyglot résumé beat my stay–at–home skills hands down. Still, where did that leave me,

role of

for another jealous meltdown, ready to referee a steel–cage match between me

I should’ve told you where I

his, rose, and turned to the picture window where the first warm light of dawn was pushing over the skyline. “Maybe I just don’t know how to be anybody’s wife, Jared. Maybe

stood so fast the chair scraped back. A moment later, his arms slid around me from behind, chin resting in the curve of

between us. “Did you even glance at your collar when