Dumped My Cheating Ex. Now I'm Sleeping Next to a Billionaire CEO novel Chapter 1103

Teresa and Andrew stood there for a while, both of them a little stunned. Only when the car was completely out of sight did Andrew finally let out a long breath, the cold air swirling around him as he relaxed. He turned to Teresa, and there was a smile on his face that he couldn’t hide, no matter how hard he tried.

“I honestly didn’t expect Emmy to take it so well,” he said. “I had this whole speech planned out, thinking of a dozen ways to explain everything, but I didn’t use a single line.”

He reached for Teresa’s hand, relief clear in his voice. “Looks like we worried for nothing.”

But Teresa didn’t move. She let him hold her hand, but her brows pulled tighter together as she stared in the direction her daughter had gone.

“Something’s off,” she said quietly.

Andrew blinked. “Off? What do you mean?”

Teresa lifted her head, her eyes sharp in the way only a mother’s could be. “Emmy’s my daughter. I know exactly what she’s like. If she had just found out something this big, even if she wasn’t angry, she would’ve been surprised… She’d have wanted all the details.”

“But she was way too calm. She even seemed like she was... trying to give us some space.”

Teresa took a deep breath, realization dawning on her face. “She must have known about us for a while. When did we slip up?”

A flush of embarrassment crept up her cheeks. It felt strange, being seen through by her own daughter, playing along with a secret that wasn’t really a secret at all.

Andrew stepped closer, pulling Teresa into his arms and wrapping his coat around her shoulders. “Don’t overthink it, Teresa.”

“It doesn’t matter when or how Emmy figured it out. What matters is she knows now, and she’s fine. She’s not upset, and it hasn’t messed with her mood or her health.”

“That’s the best outcome we could have hoped for, right?”

He leaned in, his nose brushing gently against her hair. “Now that Emmy’s okay with us, maybe we should think about setting a date... making this official?”

But Teresa’s frown only deepened. Andrew knew that look all too well. It was the one she always had when she wanted to run, to put up walls again.

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