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âFoolish child.â
Madam Shaw smiled and said, âIf I didnât know anything about you, why would I have brought you into my house? I also know that your exâhusband is Ryan.â
âSoâ¦â
I couldnât help but ask, âWhen Miss Shaw brought Ryan back last time⦠did you already know?â
âI did it on purpose to make things difficult for him!â
Madam Shaw cocked her brows. âHe couldnât even protect his own wife. He deserved it.â
âThatâs right, he does deserve it.â
âLet me give you some advice. Ryan may be good, but heâs too weighed down by his own thoughts. Living with him will be too tiring and difficult for you.â
âGrandma, weâre already divorced,â I said with a smile.
Madam Shaw inquired further, âAre you really heartbroken over him?â
âI am.â
I looked down at my abdomen, feeling a pang of bitterness. âWe almost had a child, but he chose to save someone else instead of me, and the child was lost.â
It was a complete heartbreak.
That was when it happened.
Later on, I just felt that he should have seen this coming. A broken dream would remain broken no matter how much effort you put into mending it, the cracks would constantly remind you of the real pain that once existed.
Only those who hadnât truly given up could get back together again.
Madam Shaw became excited. âThen you should consider Frank more! Iâll vouch for him. Heâs genuinely a good person. Even though he seems indifferent, once something or someone is in his heart, itâs there for life.â
âGrandma.â I smiled helplessly. âI donât want to think about this for nowâ¦â
Being let down, betrayed, and abandoned was something I only wanted to experience once in life.
Besidesâ¦
Madam Shaw got straight to the point. âDo you think youâre not worthy of him because youâve been
vorced?â
âYes.â
Historically, women who had divorced were often considered less valuable. Even the Renolds family, hearing that Jack had an interest in me, tried to stop us from being together.
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And the Smith family, being such a prominent family, would likely be even more concerned about such
things.
âHow can a young person like you be more conservative than me, an old lady?â
Madam Shaw glared at me and said in a steady voice, Let me tell you, how a man or a family treats you has nothing to do with whether youâre married before, whether youâre pretty, and so on. It only depends on their own qualities. The more problematic the family, the more they need these superficial things to prove themselves.â
âThe Smith family wonât care about such things if you put your mind to it.â
What Madam Shaw said was like a stone dropping into a river. It would cause ripples but the surface would soon become peaceful again.
As for Frankâ¦
Perhaps knowing that I could only be a substitute at most, I hadnât considered this option at all.
For now⦠it was better not to think about it.
Even if the Smith family didnât oppose it, I would only end up making things harder for myself.
On 29th December, I went to the Smith family to deliver clothes to Madam Smith.
Frank wasnât home.
Megan was, and she invited me for lunch, making Madam Smith very happy.
After lunch, she took me to a room and carefully inquired about Jackâs preferences.
I cocked my brows. âDidnât you agree with Frank yesterday?â
âItâs called âsaying one thing and doing another.â
âAlright thenâ¦â
I didnât know much about Jackâs preferences either, so I only told her a little.
She took notes diligently. When we finished chatting, she put away her notebook and suddenly said, â Charlotte, my brother definitely likes you.â
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