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

Chapter 210

The food hit the table, and I started eating with one hand while checking work emails on thought people glued to their phones for work were just putting on a show.

It turned out that there really was an endless stream of stuff to deal with. Prejudice was really horrible.

“Victoria-” Ryan started.

“Call me Ms. Murphy,” I said without looking up.

Ryan nodded obediently. “Okay, Ms. Murphy. You

first. Work never ends.”

1 paused, looking up at him. “You’re pretty thoughtful

my phone with the other. Back when I wasn’t working fatwaye

Ryan looked a bit embarrassed and said quietly, “I just noticed you

weren’t eating much.”

I put my phone down and focused on my meal. That was when I noticed Ryan ate with a certain grace–slow and composed, totally different from those teenage boys i’d seen before who usually just wolfed down their food.

After we finished eating, Ryan suddenly stood up and ran off to pay

“Hey, let me get this!” I called out, waving him back.

Ryan was fast–he’d already paid and

the check.

Ms. Murphy. If it weren’t for

the grateful type. I nodded. “Alright, just work

I sent Ryan

word and jacked up

to come back, but he said, “Don’t worry, Ms. Murphy. I’ll see if

pull some strings.”

connections?” I asked in

senior from college who works at that company. Maybe he can help smooth things over,” Ryan said with a

pulled it off–and he even negotiated the price down by 30%. He

get cocky about it, though. He just quietly went back to his seat and started flipping through those boring

call it a day. He gave a lazy stretch and strolled out of

about to head out myself. When I stepped outside, I noticed quite a

day, I always kept an eye on the cars around, so spotting all these out–of–town plates all

ht me off guard.

I got back, Jared was downstairs

quickly stubbed out

saw me,

I dodged his hand and said, “Didn’t I tell you to

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“Not convenient? What, are you bringing

wanted to piss him off, but risking my own reputation didn’t seem