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

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A single offhand remark from me had struck Sally like a boulder, sending shockwaves through her carefully constructed worldview. In her eyes, I’d never been good enough for Jared. Even back when we married, it was only because he had stubbornly insisted.

Throughout our marriage, I’d been the one tiptoeing around her, maintaining a fragile peace. She’d played the gracious matriarch, never openly hostile, yet micromanaging every detail of my life.

In the early days, Sally had visited weekly to inspect my “homework“, scrutinizing whether I’d kept the house spotless, whether I’d catered to Jared’s every need.

Before our marriage, Jared had lived with his parents, and Sally had orchestrated his life with military precision. When I took over, she’d treated me like an incompetent intern, dictating everything from meal plans to laundry routines.

Sally was never satisfied with that meek, people–pleasing Victoria.

Of course, in Sally’s mind, post–divorce Victoria should be scheming to win Jared back, not moving on. The idea that I’d found someone else was unthinkable. She believed I would never move on unless Jared remarried first, leaving me with no other option.

“Victoria, is this another one of your games?” Her tone dripped with skepticism. “Oh, I see now. This is how you’ve been messing with Jared’s head. Staging some fake romance to make him jealous. How pathetic.”

she refused to believe

successful and handsome. He was the kind of man no woman who had ever

don’t believe

nonsense. Just quit already. If you disappear, Jared will move on.” Her patience

demanding.

but I happen to like my job. Besides, I plan to stay in Shaville long–term. I won’t be returning to Hachester often, so

with Tracy. Wasn’t she the one who promised you a grandson? Though, given her recent miscarriage,

Sally cut me

investors, preceded by a

arrived, Jared was already deep in conversation with the group in

involvement in this hotel project unusual. He had plenty of other investments, all far more significant than this one. Yet here he was,

Was Jared doing this for me? Had he already started funneling his resources

room, I caught sight of Jared inside, effortlessly charming the room if he really was going out of his way to help me, then… well, I

turned cold after divorce, and some even went out of their way to sabotage their exes. Actively supporting one? That