Chasing His Runaway Wife by Jamie Stones

Chapter 77

Emmanuel didn’t want to mention a word about a demon like his father.

But Tabitha now seemed a little curious about him, and he didn’t mind uncovering the torments he had gone through to gain sympathy from Tabitha.

Tabitha surmised that Emmanuel might be looking for someone to talk to. “You mentioned those people were your father’s creditors? What exactly is going on?”

“My parents fell in love freely at that time. My mother married my father against Granddad’s objection, but she didn’t expect him to be a gambler.” Emmanuel put his hand, which was always covered by a glove, in front of Tabitha and took it off.

Tabitha’s pupils contracted slightly.

The little finger of his left hand was missing. It appeared as if it had been cut off by some sharp object. The wound was flat but horrible.

“He didn’t have a job. If he lost the money in gambling, he would ask my mother for it. If not, he would beat us,” Emanuel revealed.

Emmanuel’s voice was faint, and his expression was calm as if he were telling someone else’s story.

Emmanuel continued, “He quickly lost all of my mother’s dowry and later owed over 20,000 dollars. Granddad helped Mother thany times and advised her to be tough and break up with him, but her temperament was really… In the end, Granddad was very disappointed with Mother and refused to help us anymore. My mother really couldn’t afford to pay the debt back, so John brought people to collect debts, but my father had already run away by that time.”

Emmanuel looked down at his missing pinky and said, “Then John

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grabbed me and cut off my finger. He threatened to chop off all the rest of my fingers if we didn’t pay him back in ten days.”

At that time, Emmanuel was overwhelmed with pain, and he fainted on

the spot.

room. It was Alaric’s people who foticed Emmanuel’s condition first

hospital too late to have his

and kept crying. Her face was full of despair. “Manny,

should we do?‘ Emmanuel

he was born. He always faced his father’s ruthless

lashed out at that moment. He rushed out of the hospital to find his father, only to

the police and reported his

body taut, and his

had put my

he slowly looked at Tabitha and

right thing.” Tabitha was calm, with no fear. or disgust in her eyes. “If he were still

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and he looked up at Tabitha. “Aren’t you afraid of

a bad guy. Why should I be

Emmanuel mulled over the words, and

seems shrewd, but she

I’ve told you all my secrets. Would

about the past, he had the

Tabitha paused.

very sensitive

gather information, he displayed too much initiative and curiosity

and vigilance deepened, but she did not show it on her

party. On their way back home, they met Naomi, who was being chased by bad

the story several times, she could not help but feel

deaths and passed

dare to let Alaric know