Waking up with my nemesis baby novel Chapter 54

He hesitated for two seconds and then nodded.

Madeleine exchanged a glance with her son, joy lighting up both

their faces.

The next morning, she specially found the matching outfits she

had bought with her son a few days earlier.

“Ah!”

Madeleine noticed Roderick’s regretful expression.

“I forgot to buy one for you.”

“What?” he asked in confusion.

“The family outfits. I asked when I bought them, but they didn’t

have your size. I was going to go back when they restocked, but

I’ve been busy and totally forgot about it.”

Roderick’s frown eased.

“It’s fine. You two can wear them.”

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After all, he hadn’t exactly wanted to wear something so

childish anyway.

“No way.” Madeleine stubbornly pulled out her phone. “A family

should stay united. Otherwise, people might think Kevin and I

are leaving you out.”

Watching her busily call the sales assistant to see if they could

deliver a matching men’s shirt now, Roderick felt a strange

emotion stir in his chest.

For the past few years, as long as Madeleine was in this house,

the atmosphere had always been cold and strange.

If there had been exclusion, it was she who had excluded him

and their son.

Now, for the first time in years, it felt as if sunlight was breaking

into his long–sealed heart.

“Done. They can deliver it in half an hour!”

Madeleine raised her brows, pointing at the little dinosaur

printed on her T–shirt.

“Don’t you want one this cute, too?”

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Part of Roderick really wanted to say no.

Half an hour later, the shirt arrived.

“Hurry, go change,” Madeleine urged, while she busied herself

picking comfortable shoes for herself and her son.

They would be walking a lot today, and her feet were still sore.

She definitely needed a pair of comfy sneakers.

As she bent down to tie her laces, she heard her son clap his

hands.

“Daddy looks so handsome!”

Madeleine looked up, and her eyes were instantly caught by

Roderick.

In recent weeks, he had almost always been in sharp suits or

black and white loungewear at home.

He now looked so different from the Roderick in her memory.

Back then, the flamboyant “Ricki” had loved flashy, fashionable

colors.

Now, seeing him in a bright shirt with an adorable dinosaur

print, her memory was pulled back in an instant.

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She almost saw the Roderick of his teenage years.

Distracted, she accidentally tied her shoelaces into a dead knot.

She lowered her head in frustration, fumbling with it.

Roderick walked over and crouched down. His long fingers

untangled the knot in just two or three moves and then tied a

neat bow.

“Is this your wedding ring?”

Madeleine suddenly asked, noticing the plain band on his ring

finger.

He gave a quiet nod.

“It looks nice. Where’s mine? I want to wear it, too.”

“You threw it away.”

Madeleine’s smile faltered awkwardly.

She wished she hadn’t asked.

How embarrassing!

Roderick didn’t explain further, but he remembered vividly. That

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ring had been at the center of one of their fiercest arguments.

Three years ago, in late autumn, Madeleine had gone mad,

demanding that he give up a major bid and hand the

opportunity to Edward.

The project was crucial to the group’s future, and Roderick had

prepared tirelessly for a month. There was no way he could give

it up.

When her tantrums failed, Madeleine had stolen his bid

documents.

If she had handed them over to Edward, all his work would have

been in vain.

“Madeleine, I beg you, don’t do this,” Roderick had pleaded, red-

eyed, for the first time in his life.

The company didn’t belong to him alone. He carried the weight

of thousands of employees and their families. He couldn’t let

her recklessness put them in danger.

But Madeleine had only sneered, pulling off her wedding ring

and tossing it out the window into the artificial lake in the

backyard.

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“Fine. If you find the ring, I won’t give the documents to

Edward.”

The late autumn night was bone–chilling, the water even more

So.

Without hesitation, Roderick had stripped off his jacket and

leapt into the icy lake.

He hadn’t found the ring. Instead, he had been hospitalized

after falling unconscious from hypothermia. Perhaps she had

been frightened by his state, and that was why she hadn’t

handed over the bid in the end.

He had saved the company at almost the cost of his life.

From then on, whenever he saw the ring on his finger, the

memory was no longer of the blissful day they exchanged vows

in Quelcia.

Instead, it was her distorted face as she threw the ring away,

threatening him.

He still didn’t understand. How could Madeleine have changed

into a different person overnight?

Madeleine still didn’t know why she had thrown away the

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wedding ring back then.