Dumped My Cheating Ex. Now I'm Sleeping Next to a Billionaire CEO novel Chapter 771

Emmy looked up at her mom, her eyes shining with support and pride.

“Mom, I’m behind you all the way. I’ll dig up all my old grad school books and notes for you.”

Teresa smiled, nodding, then glanced at her daughter and teased,

“Never thought I’d see the day where I’d have to follow you around and call you my senior.”

Emmy burst out laughing.

The two of them sat on opposite sides of the desk, the only sounds in the room the scratch of pens on paper and the gentle tapping of keys.

After a while, Teresa finished her work and looked up, only to find Emmy slumped over her desk, fast asleep from exhaustion. Her head rested on her arm, her breathing steady, but her brow was still knit in a little frown. She was still clutching a pen in her hand.

A wave of tenderness and worry swept through Teresa. She stood, grabbed a soft cashmere blanket, and gently draped it over Emmy’s shoulders.

…

Later, Emmy was coming home when she froze just inside the front yard.

On the lawn, not far away, Ollie was struggling to drag a huge, jet-black rifle across the grass. The gun was nearly as tall as he was, making his little frame look even smaller.

Emmy’s eyelid twitched.

Unless she was seeing things, that was a replica rifle.

She walked over and asked,

“Ollie, where did you get that?”

Ollie jumped, clutching the gun to his chest like he was afraid she’d take it away again. He looked up, face all innocence, voice soft and determined,

“James gave it to me! It’s a toy, I promise! He said if I can put this one together, he’ll give me an even cooler one next time!”

James?

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