Housewife Gone Wild by Thanddeus Embereley novel Chapter 108

Chapter 108

Yvonne had been getting more and more spoiled by Sally lately. As soon as she got in the car, she snuggled up in my arms, wanting me to hold her while she fell asleep.

Jared kept glancing at me from the side, and I had no idea what was going through his mind. But he must’ve noticed that not only was I cold to him, but my feelings for Yvonne had changed too.

As the car headed home, we passed a street, and I caught Jared deliberately glancing at a shop not far away, his lips pressed into a thin, tight line.

Upon noticing that little gesture, a wave of bitterness and old memories hit me.

Jared loved the cupcakes from that place. I used to always stop on purpose to buy him a pack, so he’d have them to eat when he got home at night.

But this time, as we drove by, I didn’t even bring it up. He probably felt let down.

Heh, scumbag. Don’t expect me to ever be nice to you again,‘ I thought.

Yvonne fell asleep not long after, and Jared murmured in a wistful tone, “When are you going to buy me some cupcakes?”

I was lowering my head to check Yvonne’s hair, damp with sweat, when I suddenly heard Jared ask that, with a hint of childishness in his voice.

“If you want them, go buy them yourself,” I answered flatly.

“I don’t want to wait in line,” Jared replied, sounding a bit sulky.

“Neither do I,” I shot him a grin. “Why not have Tracy do it for you? She’d probably love to help.”

“Victoria, can you just drop it already?” Jared’s face turned stormy with anger.

The mood instantly turned awkward because of what I said.

I didn’t know if it was the whole cupcake thing that set him off, but that seemed to be the last straw. Jared gave me the silent treatment for three days straight, even spending two of those nights away from home.

Since he was ignoring me, I sure as hell wasn’t going to go groveling for his attention. Luckily, work was keeping me insanely busy, and with my workouts on top of that, I barely had a second to spare.

Yvonne had recently gotten into crafts, so I signed her up for some classes. But now, it was the driver taking her back and forth. I was done playing the hands–on mom.

Yvonne picked up on the change, and she was definitely not happy about it.

One night, it started pouring rain, and Yvonne suddenly ran off. The driver was so anxious that he nearly had a heart attack. He called both me and Jared in a panic. Even the teachers at the center rushed out to help search for her.

Jared was out there in the rain, frantically searching everywhere. Honestly, I was freaking out, too.

After more than an hour of desperate searching, Yvonne finally came running out of a storage room at the center. When she saw all of us soaked to the bone, she finally realized just how much trouble she’d caused.

For the first time, I saw Jared go crazy with worry. He rushed over, gave her a couple of light smacks on the butt, and then pulled her into a tight hug.

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Yvonne was stubbom. She didn’t cry when he smacked her, but the moment Jared hugged her, she burst into tears, sobbing and apologizing over and over, promising she’d never hide again.

1 crossed my arms, and my face went cold. “Your life is your own. If you get lost or someone takes you, maybe I’ll be sad for a few days, but I’ll just think that’s the way your life turned out.

Yvonne started shaking, her eyes wide and full of tears as she cried even harder. Jared’s face darkened, and he snapped at me, “She’s already scared enough. Stop scaring her even more.”

“She pulls this kind of stunt just to scare us, and she’s not even in the wrong? What if something really happened? She’d never see us again.

I’m sorry, Mom. I know I was wrong, I won’t do it again,” Yvonne said, probably because she saw me crying.

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