<<Finding New Happiness) Chapter 8: Happy
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“It’s just…a bit unfair.” I mumbled through a mouthful of food.“I’m a first–timer. Marrying a divorced man…doesn’t that just devalue me? It’s not worth it any way you slice it.”
“How about I offer a bigger dowry?” he said.
“Deal.” The atmosphere was surprisingly pleasant.
“But have you checked with those kids about your marriage? I can’t have you pulling palace intrigue on me every day at home; I can’t handle that.”
Men only think of their own pleasures.
He blinked.“Actually, no.” I knew it. Men
“Why don’t you ask them now?”
As I said this, he pulled out his phone, turning the screen towards me. I jumped back, my eyes landing on the screen, freezing for a few seconds before I realized what I was seeing.
“Alex! You tricked me!”
On the screen, there weren’t any kids at all.
It was a bunch of cute little kittens and puppies.I grabbed his phone. He didn’t object. “My whole photo album is like this. Take time.”
your
I instinctively grabbed the phone.
Alex didn’t mind at all.
I’ve always had a soft spot for animals.
On my eighth birthday, my dad even got me a teddy bear.
I named it Happy because it was all fluffy and Happy, just like a little rice dumpling. But it was during the second year that Bella came to the Miller family that it died. It was Bella’s birthday. I brought Happy. He was friendly and familiar with the Miller family. I didn’t leash him. But as the party was winding down, I searched the entire Song house and couldn’t find it anywhere. I found him in the Miller family’s basement, covered in blood, alongside a bloodied Bella. She claimed he bit her. But Happy never bit anyone. I lost it and lunged at her, demanding she return Happy to me. But Bryce showed me security footage of Happy attacking Bella first. heart. Later, when my parents That incident eventually faded into silence, but it left a knot in saw how heartbroken I was, they wanted to buy me another one, but I turned them down. I was terrified of having a second Happy.
