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

Chapter 193

felt like I’d changed, inside and out. My eyes were shining again. Instead of getting lost in my own feelings, I was talking shop with my coworkers, way more interested in work than my personal drama

Being out in the world and meeting all kinds of people, I finally understood that looks really mattered. Whenever I talked to guys, they’d instantly turm into perfect gentlemen, voices dropping a notch.

When I got back to the office that afternoon, I was wiped out from a work of traveling, but it was just my body that was tired. My mind and heartfelt refreshed.

All those new experiences and lessons made it feel like my soul had been uplifted. When I saw a flower in full bloom, I could just appreciate its beauty. instead of worrying about how quickly it might fade, twasn’t depressed anymore.

That afternoon, we had an important meeting Harmonia Hotel was getting renamed again, this time to something more evocative and romantic. The new name would be decided right there in the meeting.

I was sitting in the third seat at the table. When the office door swung open, I turned my head and saw Jared walk in.

It had been a while since I’d last seen him. Dressed in a gray–blue shirt, he looked simmer and somehow even more attractive than before.

When he glanced my way, his eyes lingered on me for a couple of seconds before he took his place at the head of the table. “Let’s get started,” he said, his

tone cool and detached

said, sounding a bit on edge. Maybe it was the pressure from Jared, but he clearly didn’t want to be the one up

Jared’s wife did give

me in silence, like he was wondering if I was really up to

to ever step into

stepped forward as the projector cast the meeting’s key points onto the screen. With poise and an easy confidence,

bother looking up, his eyes glued to the stack of papers in front of him, occasionally flipping through them. He

an hour, with my team doing most of the talking. Jared and the other two execs kept quiet, nodding when they

I was gathering my papers, about to head out, when Jared

“Victoria, could you

that, everyone gave us these looks, like they thought we were about to do something we shouldn’t in

everyone had left, I wanted to ask him what he wanted,

be easier to talk with the door open. Now that he’d closed it, it’d be

hard to read. “Wasn’t all

my head. “Nope

surprised, and then gave a quiet compliment. “You did a great job with the presentation. You’re really coming into your own as a professional woman. You’ve changed a