Chapter 575 The Wedding Invitation

• "I-It's nothing. I'll let you get back to work. We'll talk about this when we meet up during the festivities," Ryder stammered and hesitated, unable to express himself.
• Suddenly, Alessandra grabbed the phone from Emmanuel before he could hang up and said, "Ryder, why don't you spend the new year with us this year? You don't have a wife now."
• "A-Ah, Mother, wouldn't we be bothering you then?" Though he now addressed her as "Mother," Ryder understood he was not her biological son. He worried Emmanuel's wife wouldn't want him and Tommy over for New Year's Day.