Chapter 78

Chapter 78

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“The love birds are finally here!” Aunt Cynthia exclaimed excitedly the moment Kris walked into the house.

His family were gathered in the living room, and they all had smiles on their faces, but their smiles dimmed when they noticed the gloomy look on Kris’s face as well as the fact that Karen wasn’t with him.

“Kris, where’s Karen?” His aunt questioned.

“Nephew, where’s your wife? You two went out to enjoy some quality time together, didn’t you?” His uncle supplied.

His daughter, Tessa, was sitting on the floor in front of the nanny playing some Lego. Without answering his aunt and uncle, Kris sank down on the floor beside his daughter

“Hey baby.” He said and pressed his lips to her forehead.

‘She stopped playing temporarily to look at him. “Dada.”

The sweet, innocent smile she flashed him made his heart squeeze painfully. He knew the things that happened today were going to be hard on his daughter, but he hoped he was making the right decision.

“Kris, why aren’t you answering us? Where’s your wife?” His mother finally joined in the questioning.

Kris kissed his daughter for the last time and rose to his feet. “Mum, can we go and talk in the study?”

“Kris, what’s so hard to answer about that question that you can’t say it in front of

still young and probably wouldn’t understand most of the things that were going to

her.

go and talk

fine.” His mother finally agreed and got up to

going to tell me what’s going on? What’s

breath and answered. “Karen is in

“What? You had her

cheating on me. Those pictures…she got them

heart skipped a beat. This was the last thing she’d expected to hear, and what it could possibly mean had her nearly going into a panic, but she maintained her calm as

that ex–wife of yours, wasn’t it? How could you even let her convince you that Karen is capable

convince me of anything, mom. I conducted the investigations myself and discovered

his mother began to argue, “How could you just have Karen arrested for pete’s sake? All for your ex- wife? Kris, Karen is your wife, and she’s also the mother of your daughter. You’re taking your

woman like her in her life.” Kris pointed

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most. Your daughter is barely three years old. What are you going to do once she starts asking for her mother? How are you going to explain that you put her mother in jail because of your ex–wife? What are we going to say once the public

mother was making. As much as he agreed that this was going to be hard on his daughter, he didn’t like how his mother was

to touch her and invade her privacy. That was how

through his hair, feeling like ripping his hair out as he remembered how he

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