The Man Who Waited vs. The Man Who Wasted novel Chapter 150

Eleanor was already nursing a massive headache.

"If I knew, I would have handled it! Stop asking me what to do every five seconds! Use your own brain for once!"

Michelle muttered, "Well, you're the matriarch. You've always called the shots. I'm used to listening to you."

"You're used to listening to me?" Eleanor snapped. "Then why did you keep whispering in my ear to go through with this when I told you it was a bad idea in the first place?"

"I was just looking out for the family! That woman brings zero value to the Lowells. I figured the sooner we got rid of her, the better."

"Well, try getting rid of her now! She's got us dead to rights! She's got us entirely by the throat!"

"So what do we do?"

Eleanor didn't answer. She just slowly closed her eyes.

Michelle rolled her eyes and slumped back, falling silent.

A few moments later, Eleanor's eyes snapped open, a vicious, calculating gleam in them.

"No one leads Eleanor Lowell by the nose."

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Jocelyn returned to The Astoria.

When Maria Reyes saw the massive bruise on Jocelyn's face, she panicked.

"Miss Jocelyn, did Mr. Adrian... did your husband hit you?!"

Jocelyn shook her head.

Her face throbbed too much to speak.

"Then it was those two wicked women! Miss Jocelyn! You can never go back to that house again. It's absolute hell on earth!"

Liam grabbed a glass of ice water from the fridge, wrapped a towel around it, and handed it to Jocelyn.

"I told you to let a doctor check that out, but you're too stubborn for your own good. I swear, you're like a mule."

Maria was terrified.

"Miss Jocelyn, why wouldn't you let a doctor look at it? You're pregnant! What if something happens to the baby?!"

"Wait." Liam froze. "What did you just say? Who's pregnant?"

Realizing she had slipped up, Maria frantically backpedaled. "Nothing, nothing. You heard wrong."

Liam raised an eyebrow. "I see how it is. You don't trust me. Fine. Have a nice life, I'm leaving."

Jocelyn grabbed his sleeve. "I am! I'm pregnant."

Today had shown her exactly who her real friends were.

She owed Liam and Sarah everything for having her back.

For the first time in her life, she knew what it felt like to be genuinely protected.

Liam shut up.

Sarah started gently applying ointment to Jocelyn's cheek.

"You need to divorce that loser immediately. If you stay in that toxic wasteland of a family, you're going to lose your mind!"

Jocelyn obviously wanted to sign the papers and walk away.

But she couldn't. Not yet.

Momentum AI was currently developing a massive AI model specifically for the aviation industry.

Once it was perfected, it would completely disrupt the tech sector.

And Adrian's net worth would skyrocket into the stratosphere.

But the real mastermind behind that core model was Jocelyn.

She had spent years working in the shadows, writing the core algorithms to ensure Adrian's company would dominate the AI landscape.

To this day, Adrian had absolutely no idea that the wife he treated like trash was actually a brilliant polymath, a ghost in the machine who could run circles around the best programmers in the world.

Since Adrian had no loyalty to her.

She owed him absolutely nothing.

She was going to strip him of everything she had given him.