{"id":11675,"date":"2026-01-22T13:36:48","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T13:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/married-at-first-sight-chapter-23\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T13:36:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T13:36:48","slug":"married-at-first-sight-chapter-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/married-at-first-sight-chapter-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Married at First Sight Chapter 23"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fpm_start\"><\/div>\n<div>Chapter 23<\/div>\n<div>\u201cA little breakfast won\u2019t break the bank. Liberty, I promise I won\u2019t go overboard.\u201d<\/div>\n<div>Serenity had enough income to support her sister, but she was determined not to spend her entire paycheck on it since she had her sights set on becoming a homeowner.<\/div>\n<div>\u201cHas Sonny had anything to eat?\u201d<\/div>\n<div>Serenity inquired as she felt Sonny\u2019s forehead, relieved to find his temperature normal.<\/div>\n<div>\u201cHe had some milk. I\u2019ve got chicken soup simmering on the stove. I\u2019ll feed him that later when it\u2019s done,\u201d Liberty replied, demonstrating her excellent care for her son.<\/div>\n<div>\u201cZachary will be back in two days. His parents are visiting this Saturday. Can you come to Brynfield with my brother-in-law for family dinner on that day? Can you let him know?\u201d<\/div>\n<div>Liberty\u2019s eyes lit up as she asked, \u201cIs your husband returning from his business trip?\u201d<\/div>\n<div>\u201cHe mentioned he\u2019ll be back Friday night,\u201d Serenity confirmed.<\/div>\n<div>\u201cGreat! I\u2019ll keep my husband updated,\u201d Liberty responded enthusiastically.<\/div>\n<div>Liberty understood the reasons behind her sister\u2019s decision to marry. While she supported Serenity\u2019s choice, she couldn\u2019t shake her concerns about Serenity\u2019s partner, having never met him in person.<\/div>\n<div>Chapter 3<\/div>\n<div>Liberty would approach the meeting with her in-laws with the seriousness it deserved.<\/div>\n<div>After spending some time at Serenity\u2019s home, Serenity headed off to work.<\/div>\n<div>Once Serenity left, Liberty prepared some chicken soup for Sonny and decided to take him for a stroll and do some shopping. She wanted to pick up new clothes for the upcoming meeting with the in-laws.<\/div>\n<div>Liberty typically dressed down as a stay-at-home mom, often sporting clothes she had found at bargain warehouse sales.<\/div>\n<div>In her single days, Liberty had been selective about her lifestyle choices. Although she didn\u2019t wear high-end labels, her clothes were well-tailored. However, since dedicating her life to her family and stepping away from her job, she lost that source of income. Her journey had transformed her priorities.<\/div>\n<p>Liberty\u2019s savings had been completely consumed by the renovations of their home. Now, she found herself counting her pennies, prioritizing family expenses over her own needs. In an effort to impress her sister\u2019s in-laws, Liberty decided to purchase two upscale dresses, along with a suit and tie for her husband.<\/p>\n<p>As she was leaving the clothing store, her husband called her. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHello, honey,\u201d she said, balancing her son in one arm while pushing the stroller with the other.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat did you spend that money on again? It\u2019s over a thousand bucks! That\u2019s more than half of our allowance gone. Just so you know, we\u2019re splitting the living expenses now. That thousand bucks is on you. You\u2019re on your own if you can\u2019t make it last the month,\u201d Hank replied, sounding frustrated.<\/p>\n<p>Similar to Zachary, Liberty\u2019s husband, Hank Brown had given her a supplementary card for household expenses. Each month, he would transfer money into the account designated for their family\u2019s needs. However, the account was linked to his mobile phone number, meaning he received notifications every time Liberty used the card.<\/p>\n<p>For a family of three, their grocery expenses were generally kept under a hundred dollars, since Hank deposited three thousand dollars into the account each month. If Liberty managed her spending wisely, she could have a couple of hundred left over. However, unexpected events, like a child getting sick, could make it challenging to stretch that three thousand dollars.<\/p>\n<p>On this occasion, Liberty had forgotten to bring her personal bank card, forcing her to use the household expenses card. It never occurred to her that her husband would be monitoring her spending as soon as she stepped out of the store.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fpm_end\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chapter 23 \u201cA little breakfast won\u2019t break the bank. Liberty, I promise I won\u2019t go overboard.\u201d Serenity had enough income [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-married-at-first-sight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}