?


    If Wilhelm stopped wanting to see Jane, the bond between them would naturally fade over time.


    "No! I don''t want food!" Wilhelm cried, hurling Gabriel''s phone onto the car seat.


    He began pounding on the car door, trying to open it. "I want to see Mommy! I want to live with her, not you!"


    Gabriel, his patience wearing thin, locked the doors with a sharp click and turned to Wilhelm, his expression darkening.


    "Your mother doesn''t want you. Even if you find her, she won''t take you. I''m the only one you have now," he said.


    "I hate you! I don''t want to be with you! I don''t want you as my dad!" Wilhelm screamed.


    Gabriel''s restraint, already fraying after days of tantrums, finally snapped. He stared at his son and said coldly, "It doesn''t matter whether you want me or not. No one wants you now except me."


    Jane didn''t want Wilhelm. The Wilkies wouldn''t want him either.


    "That''s not true!" Wilhelm sobbed uncontrobly. "Mommy wants me. Mommy''s just mad. If I''m good, she''ll take me back! She has to..."


    Gabriel let out a mirthlessugh. "Fine. Let''s see if that''s true. I''ll take you to her now."


    He called his assistant to confirm Jane''s current location and started the car without another word.


    Wilhelm wiped his tears and stopped crying.


    He asked cautiously, "Are you really taking me to Mommy?"


    Gabriel drove in silence, offering no reply.


    An hourter, they arrived at Jane''s vi.


    As soon as Gabriel unlocked the car doors, Wilhelm flung one open and bolted toward the house.


    Watching the boy''s eager figure, Gabriel followed at a measured pace, his face betraying no emotion.


    Inside, the living room was silent, its furniture draped in dust sheets.


    Wendy spotted them and seemed startled. "Mr. Hackett, why are you here?"


    "Wilhelm wanted to see his mother," he replied evenly.


    Wendy hesitated. "Ms. Wilkie is upstairs, packing."


    Gabriel raised an eyebrow. "Is she moving?"


    "Yes. Ms. Wilkie is preparing to go abroad," Wendy answered.


    Gabriel was taken aback. He hadn''t expected the Wilkies to act so quickly. "She agreed to leave the country?"


    Given what he knew of Jane, she wasn''t one to concede easily. Leaving would mean forfeiting her ce in the Wilkie Group.


    Wendy nodded. "Yes. This was her own decision."


    "Understood," Gabriel said tersely.


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    y excused herself.


    Gabriel climbed the stairs to the master bedroom.


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    "Mommy, I missed you..." Wilhelm''s voice trembled, thick with tears. "Don''t you miss me?"


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    "No! Mommy..." Wilhelm cried, his small frame shaking as he tried to hold Jane''s hand, only for her to shove him away.


    "Don''t touch me!" she snapped.


    Wilhelm, just a small boy,cked the strength to resist. He fell to the floor from the force of her shove.