Shrouded Affections Winning Back My CEO Wife

Chapter 1389:

Eileen leaned casually against the kitchen counter, a small smile playing on her lips. “Mom… Have you ever thought about finding someone new?”

Ruby’s hands froze mid-rinse. “Oh, stop it. You’re starting to sound like Gabriela now—talking nonsense. I’m over fifty. People would laugh at me if I did that.”

“I’m just saying, if you ever wanted to, I’d support it,” Eileen said with a shrug, her voice softening. “If you don’t want to, that’s okay, too. We’ll just forget I ever mentioned it.”

In Eileen’s memory, solitude had always been her mother’s silent companion. Ever since she could remember, her mother had navigated life on her own. When she had been just a teenager, Lowell, her foster father, had passed away.

Ruby had been in her early thirties at that time. For the sake of Eileen and Bailee, Ruby had thrown herself into work, neglecting her own life.

Though Bailee was Ruby’s flesh and blood, Huey’s rebellious nature had complicated matters, leaving Ruby to stay with Eileen.

had been good for Ruby to stay with Eileen, but Leyla’s arrival had seemed to unsettle Ruby, as if she

softly. “But don’t fret. I’m staying

pang of sadness pierced Eileen’s

Without Gabriela to care for, letting

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needed to find a solution

Eileen suggested. “The chef there can whip up some Alverton cuisine. If they like the chef, bring the

that. After tidying the kitchen, she took Gabriela to

outside before returning home. As she was

“we’ve made significant progress on those pre-surgery photos of Amoura.

“Okay,” Eileen replied.

each depicting variations of Amoura’s face before surgery: different eyebrows, different lips, each iteration slightly altered to match a variety of face shapes. But in each, there was something strikingly

bore about an eighty percent likeness to