Seven Years of Marriage with Jake

Chapter 70

Chapter 2

The Carroll family was not excessively wealthy, but still with a few million dollars in assets to their name.

Naturally, Patrick spared no expense when it came to Yaritza.

He would take her on shopping sprees for the latest bags of the Miu Miu brand, buying up entire collections of merchandise from her favorite anime in one go.

For her birthday, he gifted her a big diamond ring.

In an upscale sky-high restaurant with live music, Patrick dropped to one knee, his eyes filled with fiery sincerity. "Yaritza, will you marry me? We may not be old enough to get a marriage license yet, but trust me, you'll be my wife one day!" Yaritza, overwhelmed with emotion, replied tearfully, "I... I would like to!"

As the crowd around them cheered wildly, they kissed each other passionately.

Later that night, Yaritza posted on her social media: [Being loved feels like having a fortress to lean on, and he is my fortress.]

The accompanying picture showed a large bed in a hotel room. A muscular arm wrapped around the delicate shoulder of a girl, both of them partially covered by a white duvet.

The meaning behind the image was obvious.

filled with playful banter

wonderful night

wife out

to

spent a few minutes browsing through this nonsense before putting down my phone and

that outstanding, but they were enough to get me into

much time had passed, I had forgotten quite a bit,

the essential breaks for eating and sleeping, I devoted almost all my time to studying. I woke up half an hour earlier each day to memorize my notes

breakfast and found Dustin sitting on the couch,

face softened a little. "Averie, please

"I don't know, Dustin."

previous life, it was because I could not bear to lie to Dustin that I remained silent, which led to Patrick's retaliation. This time, I was

wanted to make a mess of his

of my life,

did not even notice Patrick had come back. He glanced at

to me where you

Dustin asked sharply.

no wonder he was upset. Patrick had always been