The Barrister's Love in Town

Chapter 80 This Is All Karma

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“Can’t you learn? Is it so difficult to learn to cook for the woman you love? Or is this the extent of your sincerity in pursuing me?”

She was deliberately making things hard for Elias in an attempt to let him have a taste of his own medicine.

Knowing that Amanda was filled with resentment, the man remained silent.

When she got up and left, he stood up as well, offering. Then let me send you home.”

“There’s no need. I want to take a cab back. You promised to fix your temper, remember?”

In reality, she was worried that they would run into Aiden if Elias sent her home.

The man fell silent once again. He did promise to fix his bad temper.

Suppressing his dissatisfaction, he followed Amanda out of the World Trade Center and watched her flag down a cab and leave.

He then drove his car out of the parking lot and followed the cab, wanting nothing more than to ensure her safe arrival home.

In truth, he understood why Amanda treated him this way.

He deserved such treatment for all the wrongs he had done.

After following Amanda all the way back to Galaxy Bay, Elias parked his car in a dark corner and stayed there for a long time.

As he recalled the various wrongdoings he had committed against Amanda four years ago, he couldn’t help realizing that each one of them was quite excessive.

His phone vibrated all of a sudden.

Frowning, he only glanced at it as he didn’t feel like answering the call. However, he quickly picked up the phone when he saw that it was from the nursing home.

“Did something happen?”

The voice of the attending doctor came from the other end of the line. “Mr. Elias, your mother’s condition seems to be deteriorating. She keeps asking to see you. Do you have time to come over?”

Elias’ expression changed abruptly. “What happened to her?”

parents had always been a mystery, having disappeared for many years. No one in his circle knew the whereabouts of his parents; it was as if they

public that his son

was not true.

I can’t say for sure, but your mother’s condition has been getting

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be a good idea to come and see her if you have

on my

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hanging up the phone, Elias immediately turned his car around and headed toward the

home.

think of it, it seems like I haven’t visited my mother in

that Elias didn’t want to go, but every time he went, his presence would always trigger his mother and cause her mental state to

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or its inherently lifeless atmosphere,

parking the car, he made his way to the upscale ward where his

mother’s frail figure in a patient’s gown as she sat in a rocking chair. muttering incessantly, “Waldo, all of this is retribution… Why do you still not believe in karma?”

Winters was the name of

to his mother and kneeled

Am I dreaming?” His mother looked at the handsome man before her and hesitated to believe what she was seeing. After all, she hadn’t seen her son in a long

Elias replied

you’ve finally come! I

after she said that. She seemed to have been genuinely frightened, seeing as how tears poured

mother’s back. “What are you afraid of? Are you unhappy staying here? I can find another

from his embrace. “No, it’s not that.

face darkened the moment he heard the word

grabbed his arm in a firm hold. “Have you forgotten how your father died? It was all retribution. How could he do something as cruel as making someone else’s son be tortured to death in his

strange events had plagued

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consecutively got into car accidents, ultimately tragically dying in the last one. Since then, Jennifer had suffered a mental breakdown and had to be sent to this nursing

that Waldo had passed

Elias never celebrated his

initiative to celebrate Elias’ birthday, only to have him leave her pale with fear when he exploded in