Marcus couldn’t believe what he was hearing.
Travis was saying all this when he was the one who had stirred everything up by sending those intimate photos to him. The hypocrisy made him scoff.
Meanwhile, Travis’s words only earned him even more sympathy from Jessica.
She turned on Marcus angrily. “Are you even human? How can you lack compassion and be so wicked? Travis has no one! And now you want to drive him out?”
Marcus scoffed. “When did you become like this?” He looked at her, truly looked at her, and realized she had become a complete stranger to him.
Jessica snapped back, “What do you mean? I’m just taking care of someone who needs it. The miserable one here is you. Stop being a crybaby and grow up. Live with it. Travis will stay here and I will keep looking after him.”
Marcus stared at her in disbelief. “No, I can’t live with it. Tell me… when is all this going to stop?”
“It isn’t going to stop,” she shot back, “because he needs me. And unlike you, he actually supports me instead of being useless.”
Marcus flinched. “Useless?”
Jessica folded her arms. “Yes. Useless. You contribute nothing. You’re always insecure, always suspicious. You create problems out of thin air and then blame others.”
“I created this?” Marcus’ voice cracked.
She scoffed. “You’re jealous. That’s all this is. You can’t stand that someone else depends on me”
At that moment, everything felt utterly absurd to Marcus. He didn’t argue anymore. He tightened his grip on his bag and remained firm in his decision.
“Fine,” he said calmly. “Then let me leave, so you can take care of him properly.”
Jessica’s face twisted with anger. “If you walk out that door now, don’t ever come back. Our relationship will be officially over. Understand that.”
She sneered. “You don’t even have anywhere else to go. You’ll just go out there and suffer by yourself. Stop being stubborn and think twice.”
In a completely emotionless voice, Marcus replied, “That’s exactly what I already told you on the phone. I don’t want anything to do with you anymore.”
She was shocked. She had expected him to be scared because she believed he was nothing without her.
She blurted out, “Marcus! You are nothing without me! Remember that! Don’t do something you’ll regret.”
Marcus scoffed. “The one who will regret this is you.”
The argument finally caught the attention of Jessica’s mother, Morgan, who was upstairs. She came downstairs with a displeased expression.
“What’s going on here?”
Her gaze landed on Marcus, filled with disdain. “You again. What have you done this time? Always stirring up trouble. Why do you keep stressing my daughter?”
Travis sighed and said, “Maybe you should ask your daughter.”
Morgan’s eyes hardened. “Watch how you speak about my daughter. You are no longer on her level. She is a multimillionaire CEO now, and you are nothing but a useless freeloader. A pauper. A poor orphan living off my daughter’s success. You should have learned to obey her in everything if you wanted to earn your place in this family.”
Then she added coldly, “After all, you are nothing like Travis—who actually knows how to make people like him.”
Marcus had wanted to avoid this. He knew exactly how it would end. She would only keep shouting.
“You don’t even hear what happened and you are already judging me?” he asked.
“Oh, I don’t need to hear anything from you,” she snapped. “Men like you always have a pitiful excuse ready.”



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