Chapter 71

That whole day Alec stays at home and attends to all his calls from there and Rose also does not step out for anything. Nelly is entrusted with dropping and later picking up Henry from school.

Sometime in the evening Alec leaves for a meeting with one of the clients but not before reiterating his words from earlier to Rose.

Rose, who had just been waiting for this moment, immediately jumps into action. Quickly going over to Henry’s room, she tries to calmly explain things to him. “Henry, your dad has gone out for now. How about you and I also go take a trip? We could stay in a nice hotel, order room service.”

Henry’s eyes brighten up at the thought of a trip and immediately agrees. Ordering a cab over an app, she quickly starts dragging both of their bags to the door but Nelly sees this and comes to talk to her.

“Darling, you didn’t tell me you were planning to go somewhere. Let me at least help with the bags?”

Rose, not wanting to keep Nelly in the dark, quickly blurts out the truth t