Ex-Husband’s Regret by Evelyn M.M

Chapter 0498

"Is the food ready?" I ask our housekeeper once I step into the kitchen.

She answers with a kind smile "Not yet, but it will be in a few."

"Okay, let me set the table then."

She goes to argue, but I shut that argument down quickly. I wanted to help. Since she is cooking, this is the least could do.

*Do you need any help?"

I look up to find Gabriel's mom on the opposite side of the dining table. I place the plate I was holding down and give her a smile.

"Sure, but I am almost done."

She walks towards me and begins helping with the glasses and spoons.

how has my son been treating you?"

time to just think about her question, not because I don't know what to say, but because of the tone of

conversation; she genuinely wants to

have taken too long to answer because she stops what she's doing

the wrong way. I am not butting into business, but given how he treated you before, I just want to make sure

voice and in her eyes. She's genuinely concerned about my

really well. I am not complaining. Trust me when I say, If he were, I would have left him; everything else be damned."

you leave during those first three years you were

I guess because I was young, naïve, weak and scared. Being a mother and going through what I went through changed me. When I was away from him, I learned about my self-worth and how to stand up for myself. I had a daughter and I needed to teach her how to be

Lilly. I see her and I know she's going to go places. Those two, Lilly and Noah, are like our

thing about Lilly and

"Thank you," I whisper.

to

didn't know. Whenever I saw them, they always looked so in love. I always thought they married for love, just

"I didn't know."