Passionate Devotion: Master Fudd's Beloved Wife novel Chapter 1174

The US stock market was opened for less than seven hours and the Haynes Corporation has already lost two-thirds of its stock.

The US stock market closed at five in the morning.

Steven stood up weakly from the chair, body drenched in sweat. His legs felt like jelly.

Maria said with reddened eyes, “I’ll call Shayne and plead with him. I’m his biological mother so how could he be so heartless?”

Then, Maria took her phone and called Shayne.

At that moment, it was evening in North City.

When the US stock market closed, Shayne covered his laptop. His phone beside it rang.

It was an international number. Shayne did not save the number but had clearly remembered it.

He looked at the phone ringing expressionlessly for a very long time before slowly answering it calmly.

When he picked up the phone, he said nothing.

He had nothing to say to Maria. Whether it be hatred or loathing, it was all expressed in the stock market the night before.

They were silent for a long time when Maria on the other end finally choked and said, “Shayne, I know you hate me. Ever since you were ten, you’ve hated me. But your father and I were at a dead-end in our marriage. The accident was not the end I wanted. I thought of discussing it with him properly and going through with the divorce. However, I never thought something like that would happen.”

“What about Yanny? Why did you have to join forces with Cara to deal with her? What wrong did she do? Even if you hated me for not helping you, you should not release your hate on Yanny. Come at me. Why did you have to go after Yanny?”

Maria bit her lip and explained loudly, “I didn’t want to go after Yanny! Even if we did not get along, I’m not that narrow-minded! I was only desperate. Haynes Corporation fell apart two years ago. Steven and I needed the capital. I threw my dignity away to return back to beg you, yet you rejected me so many times. I was desperate and had no choice. I only could risk it and cooperate with Cara once. I thought Cara and you had some sort of relationship as well. If Yanny was not your wife anymore, perhaps you would marry Cara.

“By then, I could use her and get some capital, and I could use the chance to mend our relationship. Shayne, I really had no choice. For Steven, I really had to risk it. Even if there was a huge possibility it would end in failure, I still had to do it.”

Shayne sneered mockingly. “You really planned it all out! Madam Maria, from the start, you have never treated me as your son. To me, I’m nothing but an ATM for the Haynes Corporation. When you joined forces with Cara to harm Yanny, have you ever thought that Yanny was your daughter-in-law? She was your son’s love, the one who was in your womb for ten months!”

“I’m sorry, Shayne. At that time, I was really anxious. Hayne Corporation was almost facing a break in the capital chain then and declared bankruptcy. I was desperate. If the situation were not that dire, I would not have been mingling with an evil person like Cara…”

“Enough!” Shayne yelled into the phone.

Maria took a deep breath. She closed her eyes. “I know that whatever I say now is pointless. No matter how I explain, you wouldn’t believe me. But Shayne, one thing you should be clear on is that I should have apologized to you and Yanny. Not Steven. Not Haynes Corporation. I acted on this all alone. No matter what you want me to do as payback, don’t bring Steven into this, please?”

“Steven, Steven...” Shayne sneered and gritted his teeth. “Did you even love my father?”

Maria laughed. “Yes, but our marriage was lonely in the end. Your father and Steven are two different people. Perhaps in many people’s eyes, your father is the successful one. Indeed, Steven cannot compare to your father in terms of doing business. Three of us were university mates and good friends once. Your father was always busy with work and business. So, I always had to be with Steven. Steven was not as suave and majestic as your father, but he won over your father in terms of being gentle and caring a hundred times over. Shayne, in this life, not everyone can determinedly love only one person. My love for your father slowly transferred to Steven throughout our long and lonely marriage. You can say I’m irresponsible or that I perhaps betrayed your father. No matter how you see me, Steven is innocent. It was me that did not care for anything.”

What a joke, justifying mentally cheating on someone else.

“Since you did not love my father so determinedly, you should not have married him in the first place!”

Shayne violently threw his phone on the floor. The phone shattered to pieces.

He sat on his chair, both hands covering his face.

Because of staying up late paying attention to the US stock market, his eyes were bloodshot. He was disheveled and desolate.

Shayne started to suspect whether his stubbornness was wrong.

If he were to forgive Maria earlier and agreed to help her with her financial troubles, she would not have agreed to Cara to gang up on Yanny then.

Maybe, at that moment, he and Yanny would have peacefully had their wedding, having a life that everyone would envy.

The child in Yanny would not have miscarried too.

In the end, his stubbornness to cling to hatred would turn out to consume him instead.

Shayne chuckled, his face pale. He did not expect that Maria would be one of the main forces behind this.

It could be Cara or anyone else and he would not have been surprised. However, why did it have to be Maria?

That woman was his biological mother as well.

How was he going to answer Yanny?

…

Yanny received a phone call from the hospital.

“Are you Miss Yanny? This is the People’s General Hospital. Your father Winson Jacob was sent here half an hour ago by his neighbors. He fell down due to a stroke when no one was at home. Could you quickly come over?”

Yanny was stunned. She clutched her phone and said nothing for a very long time.

“Miss Yanny? Miss Yanny?”

Only then did Yanny come to her senses. She replied, “Alright. Thank you.”

When she hung up, she was silent for a very long time.

She had loathed Winson for almost as long as a century. From when she was young until she became an adult, there was not a day that went by without hating this person.

Winson was the one that made her mother pass away and made her lack of fatherly love, making her spend almost her whole life healing from her terrible youth.

In the end, nothing good had happened to that man.