Winner Takes All novel Chapter 56

“Mum…”

Katherine was on the brink of breaking down. She gaped at Elissa with despair in her teary eyes.

Elissa responded by barking, “You only know how to cry! Get the hell out of my sight!”

“Katherine, stop shaking up your mother. She has just discharged from the hospital after all.” Kieran couldn’t continue witness this fiasco so he advised Katherine in a low voice.

After Katherine had left, Kieran let out a sigh of relief. He started complaining to Elissa, “Look at you. Why do you have to pile everything onto your daughter?”

“Are you blaming me now? Then you should find a way to pool together the money!”

Elissa’s words caused Kieran to fume with his cheeks getting reddened.

Kieran softened his tone, “What if Jack doesn’t have money?”

“Dad, how could Jack be poor? If he doesn’t have much money, how was he able to save her mother and restore her to good health?” Tommy howled loudly.

“You, shut the hell up! Do you think that our house is not divided enough?”

Kieran shot a furious glare at Tommy, which caused Tommy to cease all his shouting.

He then turned to face Elissa, “Ever since Katherine and Jack married each other, she has always been the one who is holding on to the bank cards. She should be perfectly clear with the amount of money Jack possesses. There is no way she would be deceived.”

“If you ask me, I think that Jack probably borrowed money from the company he is working at to pay for his mother’s medical treatment. He is still a deputy manager after all. It wouldn’t be hard for him to borrow some money.”

After analyzing, Elissa’s rage slowly dissipated. She furrowed her brows and started to wrack her brain.

After a few seconds, Elissa suddenly snapped her head upwards and said vehemently, “I don’t care whether he actually is rich or not, he must be able to borrow money a second time from his company since there is a precedence. In the past, I never minded him marrying into our family. He was able to elevate his status due to us, yet he has forgotten the kindness we have bestowed upon him by divorcing Katherine. He thought that two hundred thousand yuan is enough to dismiss Katherine just like that?”

“You…”

Kieran’s face was a bright red color, but he couldn’t respond to her words.

Elissa continued her assault while putting her hands on her waist, “What do you want to say? You have to listen to me on this matter. For Tommy’s sake, Katherine has to extort a few hundred thousand yuan from Jack. This is only fair for Katherine. We can’t just let that ungrateful bastard go after that measly two hundred thousand yuan!”

Kieran let out a sad sigh while sinking into the sofa. He drooped his head, not wanting to continue this argument.

On the other hand, Tommy happily wrapped his arm around Elissa’s, “Thank you, mum. You’re always the best.”

Elissa rubbed Tommy’s head affectionately and replied, “A parent has to do what she has to do. You are my own son, so there is no way I won’t shower my love on you.”

…

A loud rumbling in the sky followed the flashes of thunder that seared through the clouds.

Soon, trickles of rain morphed into a huge downpour.

Katherine dragged her legs along the lonely streets. Her whole body was soaked wet with rainwater.

Her field of vision was blurred by water. She couldn’t differentiate whether it was the rain or her tears.

After moving forward for some distance, she couldn’t continue dragging herself forward anymore. She plopped down onto the sidewalk beside the road.

A lamp post was casting a yellowish glow onto the empty streets.

With nobody around her, Katherine finally couldn’t hold in her emotions anymore. Her tears broke free from her eyes as if the water dam had collapsed.

She never anticipated that her life after divorcing Jack would be so difficult.

She was instantly pegged by regret at that moment.

Every time she took out her phone and wanted to call someone to listen to her concerns, she would hesitate before replacing her phone back into her pocket.

The truth was, in the three years of marriage with Jack, she had gotten used to that luxurious life that Jack had made possible. Once her life took a turn for the better, she also became aloof and entitled. This change in her attitude had caused her old friends to depart from her life.

In the end, Katherine mustered some courage and took out her phone again. With teary eyes being an obstacle, she tried hard to text Jack through his WeChat.

“Jack, I want to see you…”

There was no reply even after half an hour had passed.

Katherine was a little frustrated as she stubbornly sent him another message on WeChat.

“The last time you promised to see me, why did you fail to appear? I have given you everything, including my virginity. Is it so hard to even meet for once?”

After sending this text message, Katherine felt like she still had a lot to say. She immediately went in with a third message.

“You are just deceiving me, you lying scum of a man! You have purposely enticed me to divorce you just so you can be together with Amber, that bitch. Jack, if you don’t come to see me tonight, I will let you have bouts of regrets for the rest of your lives!”

After the message was sent, this time, a reply came almost immediately.

Ding!

Katherine was alerted by the notification sound of her phone, indicating the arrival of a text message.