Winner Takes All novel Chapter 6

In the early morning, Shirley woke up with a terrible hangover.

Left alone in the room, she felt extremely humiliated.

A note on the desk drew her attention.

“You must have practiced yoga :-)”

Although Jack was long gone, she could still feel the mockery from the note.

She scratched her head restlessly, finding nowhere to vent her anger.

For all the complicated emotions, she felt less frustrated as if she had been forgiven for at least he left a note.

At the same time, she received a phone call from Tommy.

“Shirley, I was so dominant last night. I got 10 MVPs in the game!”

Tommy spoke excitedly while Shirley turned furious.

‘He could only think of the shabby game!’

She raged, “Tommy, you’re not a child, are you? Have you prepared my bride price? Do you really wanna marry me?”

After getting silent for a few seconds, he immediately comforted her, “Sweet heart, come on. My family has been sparing no effort on it and we only end up like this because of Jack, that useless bastard. I’ll marry you only.”

‘Jack?’

‘That man I dated last night was called Jack too!’

She instinctively asked, “Who’s Jack? Is he a rich guy?”

“Rich my ass!”

Tommy began complaining, “He’s my useless brother-in-law from countryside. Katherine had no choice but to stay with him in an rented apartment. Things would be better in multiple folds if he’s rich.”

Shirley shook her head while thinking that Tommy didn’t sound like the one with the bauhinia bank card.

“Shirley, give me a little more time. My parents and Katherine will have enough money soon.”

Tommy complained again with anger, “If it is not because of that useless brother-in-law, no, I should say, ex brother-in-law, we will be able to hold our wedding ceremony now.”

“What does this have to do with him?” Shirley couldn’t understand.

“Since he married Katherine, he had become my brother-in-law. As his younger brother I’m gonna marry. Shouldn’t he help me? Instead, he just wasted time and money on his dying mother at the late stage of liver cancer. And he divorced Katherine. What a useless bastard!” Tommy continued.

Shirley awkwardly hesitated when she wanted to continue. She felt a bit uncomfortable.

She replied impatiently, “Fine. I’m gonna sleep. Good night.” Then, she hung up the phone.

In the next week, Jack was busy looking after his bed-ridden mother.

After the liver transplant, his mother had been better. As the doctor said, she could soon return home after a few days.

As for the matter concerning Shirley, he didn’t waste any time worrying about her at all.

If Tommy hadn’t sarcastic and disrespectful to him, he wouldn’t have made Shirley embarrassed that night.

Early this morning, after taking care of his mother for the whole night, Jack received a call when he was on his way home.

“Jack, where the hell are you now?” A sharp male voice bombarded his ears when he answered the call.

Jack frowned slightly. That was Ben, his superior as the general manager of DT real estate agency.

“I’m sorry, Ben. My mother has been hospitalized,” Jack explained.

“Is she dead? If she’s still alive, get your ass back here to work!” Ben screamed, “Damn! When you were on leave, I was the one saving your ass. Get the hell back to the office to do with your shit right now!”

Suddenly, the call was cut off.