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

a bit on edge. Maybe it was the pressure from

sense. Being Jared’s wife

really up to running this meeting. In his eyes, I was

shadow—too shy to ever step

the meeting’s key points onto the screen. With poise and an easy confidence, I began

in front of him, occasionally flipping through them. He hardly glanced at me, and honestly, I

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

all started packing up to leave. I was

“Victoria, could you stay

these looks, like they thought

him what he wanted, but Jared reached out and

with the door open. Now that he’d closed it, it’d be even

his gaze hard to read. “Wasn’t all that running

“Nope Honestly, I

surprised, and then gave a quiet compliment. “You did a great job with