Rena nted a tender kiss on Alexis’s tender cheek and replied dotingly, “I love it.”


    As she spoke, she pressed her face against the little girl’s cheek.


    Standing there, Waylen just stared at them.


    After breakfast, Rena went upstairs to change her clothes. She picked out a silk shirt and a fishtail skirt. Just as she was taking off her pajamas, the bedroom door creaked open.


    Seeing what Rena was doing, Waylen was startled at first. Then he slowly closed the door behind him.


    Ignoring him, Rena continued to change her clothes.


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    Waylen leaned against the door and said softly, “Jazlyn said you have an appointment with the doctor today?”


    Rena buttoned her shirt up, pulled her long brown hair out of the cor, andbed it. As she did so, she said, “Something came up, so I have to cancel.”


    The truth was that she refused to ever set foot in that clinic again.


    Without giving him any more details, she walked out of the bedroom, brushing past him.


    Waylen grabbed her hand, calling her name anxiously. “Rena!”


    Rena gracefully broke free from his grasp and looked at him in aposed, steady manner. “Waylen, that’s it. We don’t have to force each other. Just Live your life, and I’ll live mine.”


    After a short pause, she added, “I’ll respect whatever you choose.”


    When she was about to go downstairs, Waylen’s voice sounded from behind her. “I won’t Let you go!”


    “I don’t care!”


    Rena’s legs buckled from underneath her, and she leaned against the wall for support for a few seconds


    It was just that Aline raked up Rena’s past love affairs, yet he couldn’t stand it. He doubted her Love for him, but actually, what he wanted was just that Rena belonged to himpletely.


    Smiling bitterly, Rena steadied herself and kept walking as though nothing had happened.


    When she arrived at the garage, she got in the car.


    Instead of sitting in the passenger’s seat, she sat in the back seat with Alexis. Along the way, she talked to her daughter, only asionally talking to Waylen if it was about the children.


    Since Rena and Waylen did everything to keep their ramshackle marriage a secret from Alexis deliberately, Alexis remained oblivious to her parents’ predicament.