It was because of his grandfather’s last words and that nameless fortune-teller, who said that Serena and he were destined to be husband and wife, so his nana stubbornly insisted on him marrying Serena.
Of course, Zack was grateful to that fortune-teller now.
If he had not fallen in love with Serena, he would have smashed that fortune-teller’s stall.
Meanwhile, Serena left Zack’s villa with Liberty and first returned to the house in Brynfield. She initially wanted to pack up all her belongings and leave, but after a second thought, she only took a few sets of fresh clothes and moved into her sister’s place.
She left the two cats and one dog behind and called Mrs. Lane to send the pets back to Zack since he gave them to her.
When Mrs. Lane sent the pets to Zack, he looked at the three furries, which had been fattened up for a long time, and said, “The missus doesn’t have time to take care of them for the time being. Mrs. Lane, you’re familiar with them, so you’re responsible for taking care of them until the missus returns.
“Take care of the flowers on the balcony as well. They’re Seren’s favorite.”
Mrs. Lane complied respectfully.
As she was preparing to leave with the pets, Zack added, “Don’t let Snowball eat too much. It’s as round as a ball now.”
Mrs. Lane was speechless, but said agreeably, “Yes, sir.”
In fact, Mrs. Lane was the main caretaker of the pets after they were delivered to Serena. She thought she had to feed the pets well since they were given by Mr. Zack to his wife. However, she ended up feeding the dog until it became as round as a ball, causing its master to disdain it for being chonky.
Meanwhile, Serena was sleeping at her sister’s place.
Liberty knew Serena was not feeling well, so she did not bother her sister and let her be a little pig at home all day.
Liberty was also relieved after fetching her sister home from Zack’s place. She could not neglect her store, which was currently being renovated, so she took off to work with Sonny after saying a word or two to Serena.
Her busyness kept her from home until it was dark.
Unexpectedly, Hank was in front of the building again.
Liberty, who was pushing her e-bike, wanted to crash it into him.
“Don’t look at me like I’m an enemy. I came over to tell you something.”
Hank disliked Liberty’s current attitude toward him.
Liberty was nice to him in the past. Even if they were divorced, they still had a son together. Did she have to look at him so coldly every time she saw him?
“What is it?” Liberty asked coldly.
“Daddy,” Sonny called Hank.
Hank took two steps forward, picked his son up, and teased him for a while. When
Liberty parked the e-bike, he said, “Your granddad took some of your cousins to my office to look for me.”
Liberty frowned. “What for?”
She already divorced Hank.
Right before the divorce was finalized, her granddad even took a sum of money from her ex-mother-in-law amounting to several tens of thousands.
She wondered if her ex-mother-in-law managed to get the money back.
Probably not.
There was no way money that went into her granddad’s pocket could come back out again.
Both parties were brazen and shameless. It would definitely be fun watching them tear into each other. It was a shame she could not witness it.
“I’m guessing they came to town to find Serena after finding out that she’s Mr. York’s wife. They couldn’t find her-Serena’s store wasn’t open, so they went to Brynfield, but they couldn’t enter. Serena isn’t answering their calls either.
“They wanted to find you, but they didn’t know where you live, so they came looking for me instead.”
It caused him to be misunderstood by his new wife. He spent a lot of effort trying to coax an angry Jessica.
Jessica hated how Hank and Liberty were still in contact.
“You told them that I live here?”
Hank saw his son’s fair and ruddy face and could tell that Liberty took good care of the boy. He said faintly, “I didn’t tell him. I just said that we broke off contact after the divorce, and I don’t know where you’re staying.”
Those people did not have good intentions. Hank did not care if Liberty was pestered by her family, but he was afraid that the pestering would affect his son’s life.
“Two of your cousins have some connections. They’ll ask around, so sooner or later they’ll find out where you live. If they come to your place to cause trouble, then send
Sonny to me. Don’t let them scare him.”
It had been a while since Hank and Jessica started being intimate, but there was still no change in Jessica’s belly.
His mother kept muttering in front of him, saying that Jessica was infertile.
Hank was infuriated by his mother’s remark. Jessica and he had only been together for a short period of time, not a decade. There would only be a problem if she could not get pregnant after eight to ten years of marriage.
However, there were exceptions where a couple only got a child after many years of marriage.
There was a janitor at his company who got married at nineteen, but she never got pregnant after the marriage. She took all sorts of supplements, but it was useless. The couple finally gave up and adopted a little girl who was abandoned.
A few years later, they adopted a son. The boy came from a family who already had several sons and he was the youngest. The boy’s family felt like it was not worth raising him, so they gave him away.
However, after twenty years, when the janitor was thirty-nine years old, she was suddenly expecting. She had long since given up on getting pregnant, so she did not know that she had a child growing inside her. When her belly grew bigger, she thought she had a terminal illness and cried to her husband that she was dying.
Her husband took her to the doctor, who later told her that she was pregnant. She could not believe it.
She got married at nineteen but only conceived a child at thirty-nine. When her daughter was born, her adopted daughter was already married while her adopted son was in high school. Both her adopted children were filial to their adoptive mother.
Her husband died a few years after their daughter was born, and the adopted children helped her in raising their little sister. The family was living well now. Her biological daughter did not have to worry about school because her adopted son was a top student and was good at making money. He was already earning a living when he was still in university.
With her son taking care of her young daughter, the mother had nothing to worry about. She was too idle, so she found a cleaning job to pass the time and earn some pocket money.
Of course, Hank did not want him and Jessica to be married for twenty years before having children. If that happened, his parents and sister, who were already dissatisfied with Jessica, would definitely cause a scene.
As Jessica was not yet pregnant, Hank was afraid that his relationship with Sonny would become increasingly distant.
That was especially so when he saw Liberty and Duncan together. Even if he felt that Duncan could not possibly like Liberty, he was still worried that his son would call another man “father”.
He wanted to take the opportunity to take Sonny with him and raise him for a period of time, so as to cultivate their relationship as father and son.
He wanted to let Jessica get along with Sonny too. If Jessica could not get pregnant, and Liberty wanted to remarry, he would fight for Sonny’s custody and take him back.
Hank was still Sonny’s father, after all. In no way Hank could allow Sonny to call another man his father.
“They already know we’re divorced-why would they pester me? Even if they come, I’m not afraid of them. Sonny isn’t close enough to you all. Besides, you just married that Yates girl. What will she think if you take Sonny back with you?
“You’ll have a child with the Yates girl eventually, so I’m not comfortable with you taking Sonny. Your parents and wife have many conflicts too. If Sonny goes with you, your parents will definitely spoil him and invariably provoke Jessica. Only Sonny will be at a risk.
“Hank, I hope you can abide by the conditions we agreed on during the divorce.”
“Don’t talk to me about the conditions of the divorce. You got so much money from me.”
Hank thought about how bad his job was going now. He lost his bonus and could barely get by with his basic salary. His extra income was also cut off because those partners did not want to cooperate with Waltham anymore. Thus, he had no extra income.
He was glad he worked hard before and had more than a million as personal savings.
Even if he lost his job, it would not affect his life for the time being.
However, he still hated the person who caused him to lose everything.
It was said that breaking off a person’s financial resources was like killing their parents. Liberty must have told Zack to do it.
Zack wanted to help Liberty vent her anger, so it was equivalent to Liberty being involved. That was why Hank was furious with Liberty.
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