The Love of Burning the Wild Rose

When Dominic picked up the phone again, he praised me in a somewhat awkward tone.

"This tie indeed fits this shirt. I'll wear this attire for tonight's dinner."

After a pause, he continued, "Aryanna.

"Send me your address. I will have someone deliver the custom-made jewelry to you. It's the anniversary gift."

But I refused.

"No need, my taste is different from Elsie Stockton's."

Elsie was Dominic's first love.

After she came back from abroad, she became Dominic's secretary.

From business schedules to trivial gifts, she was in charge of handling all of Dominic's arrangements.

When Dominic heard me mention Elsie, his tone turned very cold.

"Who do you think you are? Don't compare Elsie with you."

Hearing this, I smiled silently.

"You're right. She's way better than me. That's why I let you not waste good things on me."

My reply made Dominic speechless.

I looked at the clock on the wall.

Then, I continued, "Please ask Elsie to arrange a day. We need to go to the courthouse as soon as possible.

"Text me when you fix the date. No need to call me."

With that, I put down the phone and was about to hang up, but Dominic made a sound first.

He said, "Gavin is next to me. He wants to talk to you."

But before Gavin could speak, I directly hung up the phone.

It was just like that day when Gavin blacklisted me without any hesitation.

Putting down my phone, I held Maritza's hand and watched TV with her.

A week had passed.

While waiting for someone in the hotel salon, I received a call from an unfamiliar number.

It was Gavin's teacher.

He told me that Gavin had a fight with his classmate at school.

The reason for the fight was that Gavin's classmate heard some rumors and went to ask Gavin in front of the whole class about the reason for Gavin's parents' divorce.

But I told that teacher, "No.

"That is not a rumor. Gavin's dad and I did get divorced.

"The custody of Gavin is not in my hands. Please ask his dad to handle this matter."

Hearing my words, the teacher, in an embarrassed tone, told me that Gavin only provided my phone number.

Sighed, I asked the teacher to put me on speaker.

Knowing the injured student and his parents were all present, I calmly said to Gavin, "Gavin.

"You hit someone, and it's your bad. When you do something wrong, you will be punished. Isn't this the principle that you and your dad have always complied with?

"Also, please don't call me again no matter what happens to you in the future. Same for your dad.

"Gavin, you have to remember that I'm not your mom anymore."

After finishing speaking, I hung up the phone and waved to my best friend Emilie Latham and her daughter, Kyla, with a smile while setting up the Do Not Disturb mode.

When I was pregnant with Gavin, I always fantasized that the child in my belly would be a girl.

Even if Gavin was a boy, I still treated him as my treasure and took care of him wholeheartedly.

Before the age of six, Gavin would plant little trees in the backyard for the cats that died in a cartoon.

He would also secretly put a small red flower in my hair after school.

But later, Dominic started taking Gavin to his grandpa's house frequently.

After the age of eight, Gavin no longer cried and didn't like to smile.

He started to dislike Maritza's house, thinking that the modern skyscrapers in the city were better than the old-style houses in the countryside.

He even complained to me, "Mom.

"You grew up in this kind of place? No wonder grandma always looks down on you."

The cheesecake fed to me by Kyla brought me back from my thoughts.

Seeing me eating the cake, Emilie smiled.

"Aryanna, now that you've accepted Kyla's bribe, you have to go to her school sports meeting to cheer for her."