The Heir's Secret Bride

Chapter 149

Marve set the food on the table before responding to Alexis. "Your son made this dish.".

Alexis frowned. "What are you talking about!"

How could Byron possibly cook?" she thought

Just then. Byron walked out of the kitchen with the final dish, his sleeves rolled up, revealing a slender arm still damp from washing.

Seeing Alexis sitting there with a visibly shocked look, he frowned slightly and spoke in a calm, distant voice. "What brings you here?"

His overly indifferent tone made Alexis heart ache a liule. She forced a smile. "You don't come home often, so I wanted to check on how you've been. I also brought some of Maria's best desserts for you." "I'm not a child anymore. You don't need to go to such trouble, Byron said.

The atmosphere grew cold in an instant.

Alexis stood there, a rare trace of disappointment crossing her usually dignified and composed face.

It was unclear if it was due to Byron's coldness or the fact that hed prepared a meal but hadn't even considered inviting her, his own mother, to join him.

Maeve, though aware that Byron and Alexis didn't have a good relationship, hadn't realized it was this strained,

There was nothing between them but formality-none of the warmth or closeness one would expect between family members.

They were more like distant acquaintances than mother and son,

Alexis took a steadying breath, gripping her handbag tightly before asking. I haven't had dinner yet. Would you mind if I stayed and joined you?"

Byron's eyes flickered with brief surprise at her words.

In the past, Alexis would've made a polite excuse and left, never offering to stay for a meal.

She often expressed her desire to be close to him but only through words, never action.

Though he was surprised, Byron's expression remained unchanged. He said calmly, "Maeve did most of the cooking, so it's not my place to decide. You should ask her." Maeve blinked, caught off guard.

Alexis said to me just now,

filled with

recalled the way Alexis had hesitated, wanting

connect with her son but unsure how, and it reminded her of

wanted to care for him. "Feel free to make yourself at home

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at her again,

was unusually

tension with Byron, occasionally offering him food with the communal fork and whispering a few

responses were brief, she found

they had shared a meal since Byron had left the Mcdaniel

realize that every time she gave Byron a dish, it

smile faded from

I hated 177/ doing this

couldn't even eat a single bite of my

the dishes piling up in her bowl and couldn't help but say to Byron, "Thank you, but

hand to

the sake of the shrimp, turned her head and saw Alexis looking upset across the table. A thought suddenly

might even think he was purposely trying to embarrass

"Byron, are you just satisfying your craving for seafood by piling it on me, knowing

your favorites, and you

bite of a crab leg. "The truth is that you need to take your stomach

The dishes she had just given him were all raw, cold,

this and had even silently accused him of

in front of Maeve and wiped his hands before answering Alexis in a quiet tone. "It's just a minor

in Alexis' heart,

when Byron had first returned to the Medaniel family, and how they had all sat around the

him a lot of food, and at the time, he ate all of it, which

later, when she saw him vomiting in the restroom, her heart

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Chapter 149

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