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

“I don’t want that. I don’t want Mom to go far away. Grandma, please, I’m begging you. Stop picking on Mom.” Yvonne burst into tears.

Sally’s voice was stiff. “Jared, don’t be so pathetic. Do you think forcing her to stay at the company will make her fall for you again? Didn’t she have

someone new last time?”

Jared didn’t say anything. Sally sneered, “She is ruthless. You know she’s got someone new now; why would she ever want you back?”

“Mom, as long as you don’t stir things up, I’ll bring her back,” Jared said, exhausted.

“Come back? I’ve been spreading rumors about her, and she must hate me now! Why would she ever come back?” Sally’s voice shot up. “She’s never

coming back. Quit dreaming.”

“We still have Yvonne.” Jared clung to hope like a lifeline. “She’s Yvonne’s mom. She couldn’t be that cold.”

Suddenly, Yvonne jumped up and dashed upstairs, but then she started crying out loud. “Mom, I fell. My knee hurts so much.”

Hearing that, I felt my mind go blank. It wasn’t until Yvonne cried out that I snapped back to reality. Jared’s words sent a chill down my spine. He’d schemed all along to trap me at the company. He really was cunning.

hear what Dad and Grandma just said?” Yvonne

“I heard,” I said.

Dad still loves you,” Yvonne said, sounding genuinely happy about

anymore, Yvonne. Does that

“I wouldn’t dare hate

have to learn that kindness between people works both

Dad’s coming upstairs,” Yvonne blurted out and ended the call in

a glass, and leaned back on the couch. My

of what he thought; he said he’d never find another woman

came back. He said I couldn’t even scheme. It was impossible. I had always been a

other, once. People said never to get blinded by love, tike gamblers who always

but who was meant to lose? If one lost, the wise thing was to let go quickly. Otherwise, they’d get stuck for the rest of

walked side by side for a stretch of the

stop offered a different view, and regret was

a stepping stone to grow stronger He had his schemes, and that my plans. But what he didn’t realize was, I was already a

who hadn’t heard from in ages He’d snappest a few casual photos of himself, lounging in a dimly it corner, wearing

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