Housewife Gone Wild

Chapter 138

Chapter 138

Perfect. I needed to pick his brain about investments anyway. [Sure.]

His reply was a cheerful emoji.

The gate’s charging station was barely warm when my mother–in–law’s caller ID flashed. Yvonne’s petulant voice came through: “Mom, when are you coming home? I told Dad to tell you to buy me a present. Are you gonna get me one?”

“No.” Flat. Final.

“Don’t you love me anymore?” Her voice sharpened. “Do you even love me?”

“Love’s transactional, sweetheart. Even maternal affection has terms.” Ice crystallized in my veins.

“What did I do wrong? You’re being weird again. I don’t get it!” Classic Yvonne, playing dumb to evade accountability. She understood. She just refused to.

The call died abruptly. I didn’t redial. Some bridges deserved to burn.

the time I landed in Hachester, it was past six in the evening. Straight from the airport, I headed to dinner. The taxi dropped me off

was nearly empty, except for one impossible–to–miss vehicle. Nathan’s Maybach gleamed under the soft glow

out of the car–tall, lean, dressed in a crisp white long–sleeved shirt that gave him that quiet, academic aura. The kind of man who looked like he spent more time

or fourteen, zeroed in on the Maybach like

darted over, circling the car with wide–eyed awe

Nathan smiled. “Yeah.”

face lit up like he’d just unlocked a cheat code for life. “If I study till my books fall apart…

flicked to me, amused, before he

back to his family, still craning

in his eyes, but he held my stare anyway. “You made

I’m starving.” My tone was deliberately lazy. Around him, something in me shifted, an unapologetic

sing to

a man who’d never learned to armor himself against the world. And humans, myself included, couldn’t resist

with the tension coiling in the air. When we sat, he slid the menu

the two of us,”