Chapter35

If they’d been lovers for over ten years, what did her three–year marriage to Geoffrey during that time even mean?

Just then, a video call buzzed through.

Maureen glanced at the screen–it was her younger son Ethan calling.

She only answered after making sure she didn’t look like she’d been drinking. Otherwise, her son would lecture her again.

“Mommy Mwah~”

A frail, cooing voice came through the video. A boy who looked exactly like Jacob lay pale on the hospital bed, call- ing out to Maureen in a soft and sweet tone.

Maureen’s heart melted instantly.

“Ethan, mwah.”

Ethan gazed at her with melancholy eyes. “Mommy, you didn’t call me last night. Nighty night.”

Unlike her eldest son Jacob–a warm but talkative boy–her younger son was a typical clingy child craving reassurance. At least, that’s how Maureen saw it.

“Sorry, Mommy forgot. Mwah, don’t be mad, okay?”

Since Ethan had always been frail and was now diagnosed with leukemia, Maureen paid him extra attention.

He puckered his lips. “I’ll forgive you this time.”

“But no next time!”

Watching the little one playfully pout, the gloom in Maureen’s heart vanished. She nodded repeatedly.

“Where’s Grandma and your brother?”

Hearing this, Ethan pretended to sulk. “If I knew you’d ask about them, I wouldn’t have called.”

Maureen couldn’t help laughing–this kid truly had Lin Daiyu’s melancholy air.

“Alright, no more questions. It’s late–get some rest now. Nighty night.”

After hanging up, the smile vanished from Ethan’s face as he glared at his twin brother Jacob sitting in front of the laptop.

“Mom’s drinking again.”

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Jacob closed the laptop upon hearing this. “Guess I’ll head back to Karaville first to look after her.”

“Yeah.”

Ethan shut his eyes.

he’d want to return too–to see that infuriating

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washing up, she hugged two rabbit plushies and lay

the unfamiliar bed or encountering Geoffrey earlier, Maureen slept restlessly, drifting

woke and checked the

noticed an unread

one of

returned last night, I

sent the message at 3

“Still there

Justin: “Yeah.”

to guess it was Geoffrey’s

Justin not to

needed to get close to Geoffrey anyway, his

breakfast, Maureen went out and had the driver take her to Sutton

at Sutton Group, CEO’s

the multimillion–dollar check, lost in

Five million!

well

had people investigate Maureen

an update, he promptly reported: “Checked surveillance. Ms. Ramirez only appeared

train stations–just

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pursed his thin

Vanished for four years!

sudden return? No

Our men say her neighborhood’s

“Keep digging!”

Geoffrey ordered.

“Yes.”

slips away again, you won’t be working in

“Understood.”

left, Geoffrey’s mood remained

to have Maureen dragged back immediately–yet part of him wanted to

What amnesia!

buy

departure, he knocked

reports Ms. Ramirez seems

a flicker of something unreadable passing through his dark

but Wayne

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slips away again, you won’t be

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