Chapter 48_ Finding Manuel

When Vanessa reached outside the boutique, she noticed Manuel driving out and she ran quickly to meet him. She banged her first hard on the car, asking him to open up.

She couldn't just let him leave, not especially when he acted the way he did in there. Manuel ignored her, all he wanted at the moment was to isolate himself from all of them, especially Vanessa.

He wanted to be alone and wallow in agony silently. Being reminded that his mother forced him to act this way, Manuel despised the woman badly for divorcing his father and abandoning him for so many years.

He was raised by his uncle Hector, Manuel grew up the hard way, without his father or mother. When he finally mustered the courage to go search for his mother, he found out that she had remarried and she denied knowing him.

His mother had a family with another man, a richer man. When Manuel went to visit them, she acted as if he was a stranger and lied to her husband about his identity.

She chased Manuel away, he even lived