Married At First Sight By Gu Lingfei

Chapter 977

Jessica’s explanation only drove fear in Oscar. “Jessica, she’s well connected. It won’t go unnoticed if we hired a few hooligans to stir trouble. Her relatives are wealthy and powerful. They’re not people we can mess with.

“Did you say that her brother–in–law is the heir of the wealthiest York family? All the more reason to stay away from them. Don’t you know how the Yorks are? We’ve heard of the family even though we live in a rural area. Forget it. A hundred thousand dollars isn’t worth me taking the risk.”

Jessica winced her face. “I’m your sister, Oscar. So you’re going to let it go when someone is making my life a living hell?”

Oscar replied, “How is she making your life a living hell? I mean, you lied to us. Hank had a wife and a son when he was with you, but you became his mistress and wrecked his family apart. You kept that fact from us. Here we were, thinking you found yourself a good man.

“Do you think I don’t know you well? I bet you’re the one picking on the Liberty girl. If nothing else, you were the homewrecker. You should feel ashamed of yourself instead of trying to get even with her.

for a single mother to run a business, but you want to take away her only livelihood. I’ll stick up for you

Hank’s refusal to give us over seven hundred thousand dollars. You’re only looking out for Hank, so you don’t want to

a lot less than a hundred thousand dollars for Mom and Dad’s retirement.

gave him crumbs. Whatever he got from

were in the dark about Hank’s wife and son. It was only after Hank divorced and

was a divorcee while Jessica was young and had not been married before. Sure, Hank was only thirty–one years old, but he was getting the better deal out

a million-dollar annual income, the Yateses made a huge demand, asking for 777,777 dollars as a

that was not among the wealthy. Ordinary families would only ask for tens of thousands,

it to her daughter, Jessica was