259: Chapter 259

Chapter 259

3About a day after her relative bailed her out using Matt's money, Mary was released.2

She went home feeling dejected because she had lost everything. 

She lost her reputation, boyfriend, and, most importantly, a lot of money.

"How much did Matt pay to free me?" Mary asked her relative.

"Eight grand," she replied. Her eyes were still on the road, "Don't do shit like this anymore, Mary. You're only going to create even more problems. Do you not realize that you are already living comfortably? What more do you want?"

Mary went silent after that. She knew that she fucked up, but she felt it was a bit unjust to blame everything on her. They should also blame Kate for intentionally trapping her.

But she didn't want to talk about it, nor did she want to argue. All she wanted was to return home and rest.

Mary was dropped in front of her house. 

She could see the yellow police lines around Hilda's house, and all the furniture she was about to sell this morning had been returned.

Mary's lips thinned. 

She tightened her wrinkly fists as her anger towards Kate surged up again.

"That ungrateful barren bitch. She dares to hurt her mother-in-law like this," Mary cursed. But in the end, she knew she couldn't do anything. So she just dejectedly entered her house.

She grabbed her phone, and the first thing she did was call Harry.

She wished that Harry still had some good feelings for her because she still wanted to give him a second chance.

"Come on, Harry, pick it up. I just want you to answer me, so I can be sure you still care for me."

Miraculously, the call was connected after a few beeps.

Mary's eyes glimmered with hope.

—

"Hello, Harry, love. Where are you? Why did you leave me when I got arrested by the cop!?" Mary wanted Harry to say that he got scared and left her behind. At least with that answer, Mary could justify that Harry still loved her.

Unfortunately, what she got was the voice of a young woman.

"Hey, Granny. It's his girlfriend, Shea," the girl on the phone replied. "Harry and I are on the run because of your stupidity. We will go somewhere far. Thanks for the money, though. Now we don't need to worry about money for a while."

"Bye, Granny!"

Beep.

—

Mary's heart was crushed.

She already expected that Harry was cheating on her.

But she didn't expect him to actually leave with this younger woman when Mary had been nothing but loyal to him during their entire relationship.

She wanted to cry, but her tears were already dried up after she cried too much in the county's jail.

"This is too painful," Mary murmured. "Why did I get hurt like this? I've always been nice to others before…"

Mary felt wronged, and all she wanted right now was to rest.

But before that, she had to call her son first. She had to apologize and asked for more money because she was unsure she could survive until next month without selling HER own furniture.

The call was connected soon after, and the first thing Mary said was;

—

"Son, I'm so sorry for getting caught," Mary apologized. "I didn't expect Kate to trap me like that. She is truly vile."

Matt was ready to get mad at his mother for making him lose eight grand in one go.

But all of his anger had dissipated now.

Because he was about to get four million dollars!

"Oh, it's alright, Mom. It's not that much money," Matt replied lightly. "But I want you to lay low. Don't make trouble anymore. It's already hard for me to persuade Aunty to bail you out when I'm not there."

Mary was actually surprised that her son didn't blame her for this.

She was mentally prepared to get blasted by Matt because she knew it was her fault for being naive, so it was easy for Kate to trap and humiliate her.

"R—Really? You're not angry?" Mary asked. "But you have to pay eight thousand dollars to bail me out. You're broke now!"

"Mhm, I am broke now, Mom," Matt replied. "But not for long because your son is about to win a huge lottery!"

Mary's eyes widened.

She never knew that Matt was into gambling. She was worried that he would spend all of his money on gambling at first, but when she heard that he was about to win a huge lottery, her worries disappeared.

"What do you mean, Son? What kind of lottery did you participate in?"

"It's called the lottery of life, Mom," Matt chuckled. "I married a gullible but hard-working woman. Do you know how much Kate's entire net worth is?"

Mary didn't really understand what net worth was all about. 

But she knew that woman had a lot of money, so she made a wild guess, "A hundred thousand dollars?"

"More than that."

"Huh? Really?" Mary didn't know there could be so much money in this world owned by a woman from a small town. "A million dollars?"

"More, Mom!"

Mary's eyes widened, "F—Five million dollars?"

"No, TEN! Kate's entire net worth is ten million dollars! She is a millionaire!"

"TEN MILLION DOLLARS?!"

Mary was about to get a heart attack. She couldn't believe what she had just heard, "Y—You mean, that ugly girl. The barren bitch you married to actually has ten million dollars?!"

"Well, she earns at least a million dollars annually, and that's not including bonuses from successful books," Matt tried to recall all the things Kate had told him before. Back when their relationship was still somewhat tolerable, Kate willingly told everything about her income and assets.

"She could even earn up to two million dollars a year just from a few successful books as she is a chief editor," Matt said. "She said that her then-CEO taught her to start investing in stock, and he also taught her personally how to analyze the stock market."

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