Love's Redemption (Chris and Maddie)

Chapter 193

I woke up again before dawn. After taking a shower, I saw a reminder from Brandon to pick up the breakfast he had left at my door.

He didn't question why I hadn't eaten his breakfast and continued to get it for me.

I appreciated his thoughtfulness and ate breakfast before heading to the office.

No one else was there yet since I arrived early. Even after I planned my day and reviewed everyone's recent performance progress, it still wasn't time to start work.

I took out my phone and scrolled through social media. While it could be time-wasting, I had just a few friends on my feed. It was one way to check up on their lives and know how they were doing even without a call or text.

Derick posted about going to a billiards challenge. Lisa documented delivering another baby and recorded it whenever she did so. The baby for the day was at number 5566.

She had delivered 5566 babies. If she hadn't made a record, she wouldn't have known that she had helped bring so many lives into the world.

I liked her post and left a thumbs-up sticker. As I continued scrolling, I saw Chris' new post.

"Fatherly duties for the rest of my life." Attached was a cartoon drawing of a mother and child.

knew what it

it had gathered many likes and

to a comment, "Congratulations. Best

I closed the app and

I

and stared at my computer screen

didn't feel sad. There was just a heavy weight in

that it was Xander, I looked

up the phone.

to come to the office for the next couple of days." Xander's voice had a

was still in

what do you mean?"

been working too hard lately. You're granted two days of paid

hard? Me? I had been taking more days

try not to take as much leave

We take good care of beautiful employees at our company, especially ones like you." I wasn't a naive child,

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