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.

past six in the evening. Straight from the airport, I headed to dinner. The taxi dropped me off at a secluded garden–style restaurant,

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

him that quiet, academic aura.

emerged from the restaurant. A boy, maybe thirteen or fourteen, zeroed in on the

wide–eyed awe before

Nathan smiled. “Yeah.”

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

flicked to me, amused, before he clapped the boy’s shoulder. “Absolutely. Keep

practically pranced back to his family,

there was a flicker of shyness in his eyes, but he held my

I’m starving.” My tone was deliberately lazy. Around him,

sing to

to armor himself against the world.

a private booth, its warm lighting at odds with the tension coiling in the air. When

mind… just the two of us,” he murmured,