Todos os capítulos de Once An Overlooked Housewife, Now A Queen Of Fortune: Capítulo 171 - Capítulo 180

Dean chuckled, shaking his head. “Yeah, I don't really talk about it much. It feels like a lifetime ago now, even though it's only been a few years.”He talked about spending a summer after college in Rome, working in the trattoria kitchen run by a friend of his grandfather’s.“I was terrible at first. But the old man, Marco, was verrryyy patient with me,” Dean chuckled and tsked in amusement.Wren chewed on this new piece of information, and she couldn't help the thought that this was exactly the kind of thing she meant she said they weren't connecting on a deeper level. They never really took the time to learn about each other's pasts and what made them who they were. If they'd done more of that, spent more time having meaningful conversations instead of just enjoying the surface-level fun of dating…and the unending sex….maybe she would have fucking known he used to be a chef not quite long ago. Maybe she would have known a lot of things.But then again, maybe it wouldn't have chang

Felix continued climbing up the hill until the residential neighborhood began to deteriorate around him. He found himself standing at the edge of what could only be described as a makeshift settlement made out of pallets and tarps and tents stained with years of grime. There were hulks of vans with flat tires serving as permanent residences for some people. And in a place such as this, there was no omitting the sweet-sick odor of rotting garbage piled in corners. Clearly, no garbage trucks ever came around these areas.Felix walked carefully into the area, brushing a couple of fingers under his nose as he stepped over a mound of black trash bags. The place was quiet but you could already see a few figures near a distant window. One was hunched over a small canister and another was completely asleep...or dead in a sleeping bag. From somewhere, he could hear the relentless wail of a baby, most likely newly born.He couldn’t believe that a place like this existed within the city. Felix d

In a small, modest house in the beautiful city of Florida, on a nice afternoon, A woman through the monitor, at the unfamiliar face of the man standing in front of her door. She wore capri pants and a faded university t-shirt, with hair pulled back in a loose ponytail.She contemplated answering the door or not.Going her curiosity, she opened the door“Hi,” he smiled respectfully.“Hi. Can I help you?”“My name is Felix. I’m so sorry to bother you on this fine afternoon. I’m looking for Shanice?”The woman’s posture didn’t relax, but she nodded. “Yeah, that’s me. Why?”“I’m trying to locate a woman named Ruth, and I have reason to believe she might be your daughter. Is that correct? Are you Ruth’s mother?”The only sounds heard in the few seconds after Felix asked that question, was the drone of a distant lawnmower and the buzz of insects in the flowering bougainvillea climbing the neighbor’s fence.“Who is Ruth?” she asked.Felix almost lost his composure that instant. “Your daughte

“What?!”The sweetness of the afternoon nap she was having before the call came was suddenly gone. Ruth sat up immediately on the bed.“...yes, he came to the house, asking about you, but of course I pretended not to know who you were. I did just like you said. I told him I had no daughter named Ruth nor any husband named Frank. But then I found out from the girls that the same man came to Babe’s school with Frank!"Ruth’s heart suddenly started a hammering gallop. “What…what did the guy say his name was?”“Felix, I think,” Shanice replied and Ruth immediately let out a string of curses under her breath and tapped her hand against her forehead in self-recrimination.“Shit. Shit. Shit. Shit,” she cursed, pacing frantically around the room.She forced herself to take a deep breath and push down the panic that was starting to eat at her.“Okay…mom…um…you did a good job. Thanks for sticking to what we talked about….um…is Cynthia with you right now? I need to talk to her.”There was a rust

“He’s here," Ruth’s voice dropped to a whisper as she stepped back gently from the door. “Felix is at the door right now.”“Okay…uh…great,” Wren answered quickly. “This is it. Do exactly what we planned.Ruth took a deep breath and said “Got it” before ending the call and quickly taking out the comb with the fake hair from the cupboard where she’d been keeping it stored whenever she wasn’t actively setting up the scene for Felix's potential arrival.She carried the comb with her as she walked to the door, holding it in one hand as she looked quickly around the room again, wondering where was best to keep it.Unable to make a quick choice she pressed the comb against her leg where Felix wouldn’t immediately see it when she opened the door.Felix rang the doorbell again and Ruth composed herself.She opened the door and smiled at him in greeting.“Felix. Hey,” she said, the pitch of her voice slightly higher than intended. “I wasn’t expecting you.” She stepped back, ushering him in with