The Wife He Forgot to Marry novel Chapter 18

Winona glanced at him. “Your mother may have sacrificed for you, but she’s never done anything for me. You can tolerate her bad temper, but I have no obligation to. If she respects me, I’ll respect her. But if she’s going to be hostile, I’m not going to put up with it anymore.”

She stood and straightened her clothes. “If she thinks I'm such an unsatisfactory daughter-in-law, maybe I should just stop visiting your parents' house and getting on her nerves.”

“What are you saying?” Yulen’s own anger flared. “What daughter-in-law speaks to her mother-in-law that way? Winona, don’t you realize how much words like that hurt me?”

“She’s your mother, so you can be the one to dote on her,” Winona said dismissively. “Mr. Locke, I have to get back to work.” With that, she walked out of the office.

Yulen’s face was dark with fury.

Beside him, Tallulah had to suppress a laugh. She couldn’t believe how foolish Winona was. All it took was a little intimacy with Yulen, and Winona completely lost her temper, even daring to offend Willow. Did she want to be thrown out?

Outwardly, however, she feigned sympathy for Yulen. “Winona is being so immature. Yulen, you work so hard to provide for her, and she’s still not satisfied. I told you before, you shouldn’t have been so quick to appease her. It just makes her more arrogant.”

Yulen now thought Tallulah was making perfect sense. He shouldn’t have lowered himself to placate Winona; it had only made her more defiant.

Seeing the dark expression on his face, Tallulah knew her words had hit their mark. She continued, “I think you should teach her a lesson. Freeze all her credit cards. She’s used to living off you. The moment the money stops, she won’t be able to keep this up. She’ll come back on her own soon enough, and then you won't have to coddle her anymore. She'll learn to be obedient.”

In his anger, Yulen agreed. He picked up his phone and instructed his assistant to freeze all of Winona’s credit cards.

After work, Winona was about to head back to her own apartment when she received a call from Helena.

“Winona, something terrible has happened!” Helena’s voice was frantic. “Nikita was cleaning at home and fell off a stool. She’s at the hospital now. I’m on duty and have two surgeries back-to-back, so I can’t get there to look after her. Please, can you go check on her?”

Helena, a nurse, was usually composed, but now she was in a panic. Despite being a medical professional herself, she felt helpless now that her own family was in trouble.

After calming her down, Winona immediately hailed a cab to the hospital.

With trembling hands, she tried to call Yulen, but his phone went straight to voicemail. She then tried Helena, but her phone was off, likely because she was in surgery.

At that moment, Winona hated herself more than ever for giving up her career for Yulen. If she hadn't, she would have had the money for the surgery right now.

Desperate, she started calling her old college classmates, asking to borrow money. In the end, she managed to gather only five hundred dollars.

Frantically scrolling through her contacts again, her eyes landed on Violet’s name. Swallowing her pride, she made the call.

The line connected quickly, but the voice that answered wasn't Violet's. It was a young man's, deep and magnetic.

“Hello? Are you looking for my grandmother?”