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.

It was Alaric’s people who foticed Emmanuel’s condition first and sent him to the hospital, but Alaric refused to

too late to have his fingers

forever missing. Lorelai sat in front of the ward and kept crying. Her face was full of despair. “Manny, I have no money. Your granddad doesn’t want to

should we do?‘ Emmanuel asked himself.

a good day since he was born. He always faced his

moment. He rushed out of the hospital to find his father, only to discover him gambling in

and reported

slowly, his body taut, and

I had put my father in prison. No

Tabitha and said, “Do you

disgust in her eyes. “If he were still out there,

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tension on Emmanuel’s body relaxed, and he looked up at Tabitha. “Aren’t you afraid of

Why should I be afraid of

a bad guy?‘ Emmanuel mulled over the words, and suddenly, a profound irony spread through his heart.

woman, Tabitha, seems shrewd, but she is sometimes foolish,‘ het

pursed his lips. “Tabitha, I’ve told you all my

willing to talk to him about the past,

Tabitha paused.

very sensitive

was injured while helping her gather information, he displayed too

she did not show it on her face.

know most of it. When I was 14 years old, my parents went to a friend’s birthday party. On their way back home, they met Naomi, who was being chased by

story several times, she could not help but feel depressed when she brought it

was deeply affected by my parents‘ deaths and passed away a few years later,” she

case, Tabitha didn’t dare to let Alaric