Countdown to My Divorce

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Chapter 403

Jim immediately said, “You said it yourself. This has nothing to do with me

Rachel didn’t even want to think about it. She just walked over and pulled the blanket up for lim

“Dad, I really hope you won’t take things too far.”

“How is this taking things too far? Isn’t this just human nature? I need to know you’ll hav someone to take care of you. That’s the only way I’ll be at peace.”

Jim did have his reasons.

Rachel was different from Yvette. Yvette still had her grandfather, but Rachel had no one but him.

With how weak his body had become, Jim knew there would come a day when he wouldn’t br around anymore. When that day came, Rachel would be left with no family in this world.

He couldn’t even help Rachel find her birth mother,

Suddenly remembering something, Jim reached under his pillow and pulled out a necklace. He handed it to Rachel.

this necklace might help. I was completely out of it that night, but when I woke up, this necklace was by

she could tell right away it was quite old, though

but even she could tell it wasn’t cheap. There was no way something of poor quality could last that long and

this.

probably wasn’t doing too badly financially back then. That, or someone had

didn’t blame Jim. He had already married Melanie by then. This was probably the best

she hadn’t expected was that the woman had

tucked the necklace away

Dad.

ward

and said bluntly, “Your condition is pretty serious. Just when the old issue was finally showing some improvement, Rachel went and left. These five years, your sleep’s been a disaster. On top of that, you’ve been burning yourself out physically. If it weren’t for your consistent workouts,

Chapter 40

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Tyler’s charts and

If you don’t get your sleep under control, it’s going to become a serious problem. You’d better hold

unfamiliar to him. They had tried