He Stole Me From My Deadbeat Husband-Chapter 480

Kate’s heart felt tight as guilt began to encroach on her.

She quickly turned off the TV and lay weakly on the sofa. She stared at the ceiling, and the image of Henry telling her that he would never let her go was enough to send her heart into a frenzy.

’Why did you say that, Henry? Why can’t you let me go?’ Kate pondered. ’It’s better if you move on as soon as possible so we can close this Chapter between us and have a fresh start away from each other, both body and heart.’

’How am I supposed to forget when our hearts are still connected?’

"Mamama..." Theo turned his head to look at his Mom. He seemed to notice the distress that his Mom experienced.

Kate tried to ward off the distress on her face by smiling at her son, "Mama is okay, Theo. That man is not your Papa, so you don’t need to think much about it, okay? Your father was a brave and honorable man who died after protecting us."

"Ba... ba..."

Of course, Kate knew that her baby still had no consciousness to understand about all this. But this ensured that Kate didn’t misspeak once Theo got older and started questioning his father’s identity.

Kate didn’t want Theo to grow up thinking he had a chance to be part of Grant’s family. That family was rotten to the core.

Kate wanted Theo to grow up as a normal young man, work a regular job, find a girl he liked, and marry. Hopefully, she would live long enough to see her grandchildren.

There was beauty in a normal life, so Kate wished Theo would never find out about his father.

Kate tried to ignore the growing uneasiness in her heart as she tried to busy herself by changing Theo’s diaper and then making lunch for her and the employees downstairs.

Meanwhile, Maya and Tom were still busy during lunchtime because many customers walked in to buy their quick lunch before returning to work.

By the time they were done, it was already two-thirty.

Kate went down with two plates of fried rice she had made by looking at a recipe. "Sorry for the late lunch. I need to make sure Theo falls asleep first before cooking."

"Wow, thanks, Kate!" Maya accepted her lunch happily. Kate always cooked them lunch even if they never asked. She simply said it was her duty as an employer.

Of course, Maya wouldn’t decline a free lunch!

But Tom was different. He accepted the plate but said, "Please deduct my salary for this fried rice."

"Well, you wouldn’t get paid by the end of the month if I had to do that," Kate shrugged. "It’s fine. I have a lot of ingredients in my fridge, and the only one who eats is me since Theo is still eating puree."

Again, Tom reluctantly accepted the plate and ate with Maya in the kitchen while Kate talked with the customer who just walked in.

Maya glanced at Tom, who ate the fried rice slowly as if he was trying to enjoy the simple fried rice.

"Hey, it’s just a simple fried rice. I can cook it for you if you want," Maya offered.

"No need," Tom replied curtly.

Maya sighed. fгeewёbnoѵel.cσm

She had a crush on Tom for a while until she realized that Tom only saw her as a coworker.

He was obviously crushing on Kate, and it was understandable since Kate was the picture of a perfect woman.

Smart, independent, gorgeous, kind, and on top of that, motherly.

She was really a man’s daydream.

"Tom, have you told Kate about your feelings yet?"

"Uhk!" Tom choked on the rice when Maya asked that question. He drank a glass of water and stared at Maya as if she just said something ridiculous. "What on earth are you talking about? My feelings?"

"Yeah, it’s obvious that you have a crush on Kate., So why don’t you tell her about it? Maybe she’ll be interested in you as well," Maya shrugged. "You two look good together, you know."

Tom shook his head, "Don’t say weird things. My love is not on par with his love for her."

Maya frowned, "He? Who’s this ’he’ are you talking about? Is it Kate’s ex? The baby daddy?"

Maya had a lot of questions in her mind, but the most important was, "How do you know about this information? Did Kate tell you about it before?"

Tom’s body stiffened instantly. He panicked when Maya casually called him out for his feelings, and he blurted something he shouldn’t have said.

"Yeah, she told me once. She said she’s still healing from a bad breakup. It’s better not to pester her about this," Tom lied to cover up for his mistake. He blamed himself for being vulnerable. It was all because he felt something other than a sense of duty for Kate.

’Love is truly a weakness,’ Tom thought.

"Oh? Really? Damn, she’s closer to you than I thought," Maya complained. "Well, I can’t do much. I joined a month ago, so she probably doesn’t trust me as much."

"She will trust you eventually," Tom said. He did a background check on Maya and was assured this girl wouldn’t do anything to hurt Kate. She was here to work as a breadwinner for her old mother.

Maya and Tom finished their late lunch and returned to their workstation to help Kate. They got busy until seven, when they closed the store.

Maya was the first to leave as she had to check on her mother while Kate and Tom prepared the ingredients for tomorrow.

There was a radio in the kitchen, so they could listen to music and make some noise, but when the music stopped, the radio began to enter the gossip session.

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"And today, we are going to talk about that hottie, Henry Theodore Grant! Oooh~ Don’t you see how handsome he is?" The host asked her partner on the radio.

"Oh, he is a 100% pure-grade hottie! I wonder if he’s still single."

"Apparently not, because they said he already has someone in his heart and will never let go! Oh, so romantic!"

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