NovelOnlineChapter 1396: "You've had a long day. Why don't you play with your granddaughter while I whip up sdinner?" Amoura stood up, settled Angell next to Javier, and headed upstairs to change before making her way into the kitchen. When she returned downstairs, she found Angell back outside playing. Javier had moved to the dining room. "What did you do before our marriage?" Javier asked, his tone casual but his eyes sharp.
Amoura's smile faltered for a moment. Javier had asked her about this before, but she had answered vaguely. Therefore, now that he asked again, she sensed something amiss.
She turned to him with a coy laugh. "Why the sudden interest in my past? As I've mentioned, I was just a housewife before." Javier smiled nonchalantly. "Can't you be more specific?" "There's not much to say," Amoura said, her voice tinged with practiced melancholy. "I was kept at home, which is why I ended up with nothing after the divorce. It's the reason for my misery. Ironically, I have a love-hate relationship with my ex-husband. I resent him for makingwaste 20 years of my youth, yet I'm grateful. Without him, I wouldn't have met you." She deftly steered the conversation away from details.
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtJavier noticed her evasiveness, his lowered eyelids masking his thoughts.
Amoura continued cooking, filling the silence with tales of her past hardships.
"Didn't you have any children?" Javier asked abruptly.
Amoura's expression turned sad. "Yes, but... He's dead." Javier's eyebrows shot up. "Dead?" Fresh content live now gVlnovs"It was his father's fault," Amoura said, her eyes glistening with tears. "He broke the law and was gunned down. He died in my arms, blood spilling from his mouth. I was terrified. He was my whole world, and losing him leftadrift. I even considered ending it all." "I shouldn't have brought that up," Javier said softly, offering her a tissue.
Amoura dabbed at her eyes, sniffling. “I'll be alright. Dinner's ready. You and Angell should eat. I need to rest upstairs." Before Javier could respond, she hurried up the stairs. Javier opened his mouth to say something more but didn't get the chance.
Once Amoura was safely behind closed doors, her facade crumbled.
Her eyes blazed with a tumult of emotions.
With trembling fingers, she fired off a message: "No more delays. Act now!" Eileen heard from Raymond that Colby was last seen yesterday.
He had dropped Angell off at the Deleon family's residence beforen heading home. At midnight, he had ventured out to a bar. But Raymond's men hadn't seen him leave the bar for about four days.
They had combed the bar and asked the manager, but Colby had vanished without a trace. He must have slipped away unnoticed.
"I'm telling you, there's no way Colby left. My guys aren't the kind to make sloppy mistakes," Raymond said with complete certainty. "They've had eyes on Colby's place for days, and still-nothing. No movement, no sign of him at all."
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