Shrouded Affections Winning Back My CEO Wife

Chapter 1173:

Eileen rolled her eyes, her tone sharp as she said, “How can you just pretend nothing ever happened? Can you turn back the clock more than a decade and skip college, or somehow make me forget everything I know now?”

Refusing the water Bryan offered, she turned her face away in defiance.

“Gabriele, look, Mommy’s upset,” Bryan said, signaling to Gabriela. Right away, Gabriela lifted her tiny hands, gently turning Eileen’s face back. “Mommy, you’ll feel better if you drink more water,” she said sweetly.

In the morning, Eileen had explained to Gabriela that she was in the hospital because she wasn’t feeling well, and that drinking more water would help her get better. Now, Gabriela was just parroting Eileen’s own words back to her, even though Eileen wasn’t actually sick.

Unable to resist Gabriela’s hopeful gaze, Eileen finally gave in. She grabbed Bryan’s wrist, drank the water, and then lay back down with Gabriela nestled in her arms.

“I haven’t seen her in years. It’s irrelevant whether she was my professor back then or not. Don’t pay any attention to the nonsense Jacob said,” Bryan said, sitting down beside Eileen and resting his hand on her slim waist. “By the way, I haven’t even told you about Jacob chasing after the school beauty.”

didn’t particularly care, Bryan went on about Jacob’s complicated efforts to win over the school beauty. He continued, sharing all sorts of stories from

was still lost in her thoughts, Bryan handed her the phone

where it all

off again, and Eileen had been lying in bed so long that

the sofa. As she checked her messages, she noticed one from

gotten the confessions you need. It’s just

Jacob pursuing the school beauty back in his university days. She didn’t particularly want to dig into the past, but really, this was all

according to Bryan, the school beauty showed up at every reunion and still kept

Phoebe had been so good to her; it wouldn’t feel right to keep

be trusted, but with how absentminded he could be, who was

When he saw her busy with her phone,