Liberty said with an impassive face, “If your wife finds out that you ordered flowers for me and she comes yelling at me for seducing her husband, that would be hilarious. If I wanted to seduce a man, I would definitely seduce someone better and more outstanding than you are. Why would I pick up trash I’ve already thrown away? Are there no men left in the world?”
Hank flushed in embarrassment In Liberty’s view, he was a scumbag. Considering her temperament, she would never get back together with an ex
He really did not understand what his mother and sister thought They treated Liberty so badly in the past and now wanted him to win Liberty back. What did they think she was?
Someone who would come and go when beckoned with the wave of a hand.
“Liberty, I admit I was wrong, but that’s all in the past now. Now, we can’t be husband and wife, but we can still be friends. For Sonny’s sake, could you at least give me some leeway?”
Liberty looked at her son. He was innocent and pure and to this day did not understand why his parents were not living together anymore, and why his dad was no longer beside his mom but another woman instead
Liberty thought of the fact that her son was still young and had not explained to him what divorce meant. Once he was able to understand better, she would tell him that even if she and Hank were no longer husband and wife or even if they turned into strangers, they were still Sonny’s parents.
Her love for Sonny remained unchanged. Whether or not Hank would change in the future was hard to say.
Jessica was not pregnant yet and her ex-husband’s family still viewed Sonny as very important. Once Jessica got pregnant and had a child, would the Browns still remember who Sonny was?
“Liberty, do you need me to come over and help when you open? If you’re worried Jessica will misunderstand, I’ll get my parents to come. They can’t do much, but they can help you clear the dishes, wash them, and help look after Sonny.”
Smiling in embarrassment, he continued, “If you’re willing to pay them a little for wages, please do, but it doesn’t matter if you aren’t They’re Sonny’s grandparents and family. We should all help each other out.”
Liberty immediately rejected, “There’s no need. Seren and Mrs. Lane will come over to help out.”
If not for Sonny, she would not interact with the Browns at all.
“Who’s Mrs. Lane?” Hank asked.
“None of your business.”
Hank choked, then said to Liberty, “Liberty, we’ve known each other for more than a decade and were once in love. Yes, I made a mistake many men would make and I’m not asking for your forgiveness either. I won’t regret the path I chose myself”
“But don’t be so defensive against me, like I’m a thief. At the very least, I’m still Sonny’s biological dad. I don’t skimp on Sonny’s child support fees either. Compared to those guys who help others raise their children after getting divorced, I think I’m one of the better ones.”
He would take care of Sonny now when he was young, and he hoped Sonny would take care of him when he was old.
“Mr. Brown, since you’re well aware that we are no longer husband and wife, stop saying things like we’re a family. If your wife heard that, be careful or she might twist your ear and make you kneel on spikes. Now that we have nothing to do with each other, why should I tell you about my business?”
Liberty did not show Hank any mercy.
She did not want Hank to know too much either. Do not assume she was oblivious to this piece of trash trying to find out what sort of benefits she was getting from her sister.
He wanted to ameliorate the antagonistic relationship between them, then shamelessly ask her to ask Zack to let him off the hook.
Hank was cognizant that the reason he and Jessica lost their jobs and could not find new ones to this day was due to Zack’s punishment.
As long as Zack did not let them off the hook, they would not be able to find a job.
He could not reconcile with himself to return to his old home in the countryside to farm the land and refused to go back. After bringing it up once, Jessica made such a big fuss that he felt dizzy. She said she had gotten together with him in the first place because he had bought a house in the city and had a stable job, high income, and was able to hustle on the side for extra cash.
She also came from a farming village and only managed to get out with much difficulty. She was not willing to go back to that again.
Jessica was not willing, and deep down, neither was Hank So only by aineliorating his relationship with Liberty could they get Zack to spare them
If he knew earlier that Serena was Mr. York’s wife even if he had to drag it out, he would have done his best to delay divorcing Liberty. Then Serena would not have allowed Zack to force him into a corner for her sister
Unfortunately, these were all thoughts in hindsight
At the time he had suspected that Zack was “the” Zack York but did not believe that Serena had the luck to mam into a rich family, so he had discarded the thought Who knew that he really was “the” Zack York?
Hank was at a loss for words
“Mr Brown, if there’s nothing else, please leave ”
Hank hugged his son and sat there, unmoving, but said, “I want to accompany Sonny a little longer In the past, I was too busy with work and didn’t have the time to play with him, but now that I’m temporarily unemployed, it just so happens I have the time to make it up to him.”
“Don’t you and Ms. Yates have a wedding to hold? Don’t you have to renovate the house anew?” Liberty asked in return.
“My money is mostly being managed by Jessica. I let her take care of all that so she understands both our families’ financial situations. Then, she won’t think of trying to help her maiden family out,” Hank said.
The Yateses are kind of like vampires. They want to catch me and suck the life out of me. Luckily, Jessica knows how to draw the line.”
Hank had zero goodwill for his in-laws now
The dowry given had been a little bit low, so his parents-in-law had further asked him to buy a scooter each for his two brothers-in-law They said they did not need to be too expensive-just over ten thousand dollars each would do.
New scooters that cost over ten thousand dollars each for them both would still result in his spending over twenty to thirty thousand dollars.
Hank did not even bother negotiating with his parents-in-law further and told Jessica directly that they only had the little amount of money left and let her deal with it as she saw fit.
Jessica’s heart was fixated on their own little home. How could she be willing to fork out another twenty to thirty thousand dollars to buy vehicles for her two older brothers? She herself was still using Hank’s old car
Thus, Jessica would return to her parents’ home to argue with her parents, brothers, and sisters-in-law about once every two or three days.
Jessica’s parents would scold her and call her a waste of money who did not know how to squeeze the Browns for benefits to give to her own family.
Jessica would retort by asking how much money the Yateses forked out and what benefits they gave her sisters-in-law’s families when her elder brothers got married.
This struck her parents into speechlessness.
At the time their daughters-in-law married into their family, they had been very stingy. They had only given
6,600 dollars to each family, and did not pay for anything else. Moreover, before their two sons got married, they kept control over their bank accounts.
They did not give any more money to their in-laws, but the dowry Jessica’s sisters-in-law provided was worth more than tens of thousands of dollars.
“Ms. Yates is indeed much more capable than I was.”
Even Liberty had to admit that when it came to being a wife and daughter-in-law, Jessica was much better than she was.
Back then, it was precisely because she loved Hank that she tolerated everything and got bullied harshly.
Was the reason her ex-mother-in-law and ex-sister-in-law could bully her to that extent not all because she had enabled it?
If she had aggressively retaliated from the start, that mother-and-daughter pair would have known her might. How could they have dared keep bleating then?
“But Jessica’s family isn’t good not as good as Serena Back then, Serena not only would help with the housework and make breakfast but would also help with taking care of Sonny In the past, no matter what time I got up. Serena would prepare breakfast for us three and I only had to eat and go to work.
“Now Jessica won’t get up early to make breakfast for us and even wants me to get up and make it for her Her family only knows how to ask for favors but they don’t help in any way”
Liberty felt furious hearing that “That was because you treated my sister like a free housekeeper! Do you remember why we argued last year? You said my sister was staying in your house for free and what was the use of paying two to three thousand dollars a month for food?
“Now there’s no one being a free housekeeper for you guys, you’re saying my sister was good? Mr Brown, let me tell you, if it weren’t for me, Seren would have moved out long ago. Do you think she was happy to be a housekeeper for free? She did it all for me.
7 was useless as an elder sister. I couldn’t protect her and let you look down on her and accuse her, forcing her to get married just to move out.
“Back when we got married, we agreed to let Seren move in, unless she got married… Of course, looking at it from another angle, I have you to thank for it. If it weren’t for your hostility and accusations against Seren, Seren wouldn’t have gotten married to Zack
“You could have some credit for Seren managing to marry into the York family.”
Hank Brown was struck speechless.
How aggravating.
“Liberty, let’s not rehash old scores.”
Hank smiled, embarrassed. “That’s all in the past now.”
“You started it first If you want to spend more time with Sonny, take him out to play. There’s a small park nearby You should take Sonny there to play. I have things to do and I don’t have the time to be bothered my work. with you. If you stay here, you’ll just very much affect my mood”
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