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

Chapter 578

“Okay, Mom,” Yvonne answered, doing exactly as I asked.

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Turns out, without those sugar–coated lessons laced with poison from a stepmom, Yvonne’s just a really sensible kid.

Jared looked like he wanted to say something, but in the end, his voice grew serious as he said, “Mom, take Yvonne home.”

“But…” Sally was this close to blurting out her real reason.

“Let’s go,” Jared said, giving me a complicated look before turning to Nathan. “Nathan, thanks for helping Victoria and Yvonne out. Get some rest.”

Nathan gave a gentle smile. “Really, it was nothing. No need to thank me.”

Sally looked a bit reluctant, but she picked up her basket and walked out.

“Mom, Nathan, I’ll come over tomorrow morning,” Yvonne called, waving her little hand at us.

Finally, the room was quiet. Nathan let out a sigh of relief and eased himself back against the pillow, careful not to aggravate his wound. He looked at me with a helpless smile.

“Jared’s mom is really something,” Nathan said, looking straight at me. “She came in here and started playing matchmaker, even brought photos of potential girlfriends.”

I shrugged and laughed. “She’s got a lot of connections–knows plenty of rich girls. If she’s introducing you, you’re really making out pretty well.”

“Victoria, don’t you think there’s something else going on with her trying to set me up?” Nathan said, sharp as ever, already seeing through the whole act.

help but chuckle. “Oh? So what did

Jared back together, so she’s trying to marry me off to someone else as fast as

You sure you’re not just reading way too much into this?” I shot him a playful

stuff, I’m like the most sensitive guy ever,” Nathan protested, giving me a

from the injury,

won’t even

try to get me

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else. Once I’m off the market, Jared would have

making sure any guy interested in

“speechless” written all

straightforward. Don’t take it

comfort him.

did little to comfort Nathan. He just

look even more intense–there was this striking, almost intimidating

looked at me, his brows lowered over those long, narrow eyes, something dark and unreadable flickering in his gaze. In that instant,

“Your shirt’s still got blood on

me,” Nathan said, suddenly acting all bold and not even pretending to be shy

I was about to do that anyway. I grabbed a basin, filled it with hot water, and brought it

steaming–hot water, wrung it out,

his left hand, but for some reason, even his usually nimble fingers seemed to fumble with the

it,”

his hand fall away

room was toasty, so I slipped off my coat. All I had on underneath was a fitted black turtleneck