Winner Takes All

Chapter 1 Divorce

“Mr. Hughes, I am sorry to tell you that your mother is in the late stage of liver cancer…”

Seeing the doctor shaking his head, Jack suddenly felt dizzy with bloodshot eyes. Since he was a child, his mother and he had been relying on each other.

To fund his education, his mother had been overworked and ill. Without having the chance to enjoy her twilight years, she was suffering instead.

“Doctor, could you please save my mom? Any way we can try?”

Jack begged in a hoarse voice and almost cried.

“There is actually a way—liver transplant. Fortunately the hospital is able to achieve that…”

The doctor said after hesitating for a moment. He paused again while staring at Jack up and down. He knew very well how the long and arduous medical treatments had taken a toll on Jack.

However, he decided to break it to Jack, “But…it’s quite costly—at least two hundred thousand yuan.”

Two hundred thousand yuan? Jack’s eyes suddenly lit up as he grabbed the doctor’s hands, “I still have two hundred thousand yuan! You must save her. Please!”

Jack knew that he could make that money again, but his mother’s life would not take two.

“Then you have to come up with the money as soon as possible. If this delays, even the liver transplant would not save your mom,” the doctor nodded while letting out a sigh before leaving. He went home quickly and saw Katherine, his wife, sitting in the crouch.

“Mom is dying?”

Katherine asked as she caught a glimpse of Jack. “The doctor said liver transplant was the only way we have,”

Jack sounded as if he had grasped the last straw of hope as he continued excitedly, “It costs two hundred thousand yuan, and fortunately we still have it. Mom has one last chance here.”

A second later, he turned around to get the bank card.

However, Katherine’s face changed as she halted him, “Jack, stop right there!”

Jack frowned as though he suddenly recalled something important.

around and stared at Katherine,

looked flustered as she started to stammer.

He felt weak and headed to the sofa while taking out a cigarette box from his pocket. With a flash, he

married for three years, and

money is my last hope

said tiredly, “Can

“Get it back?”

raised her eyebrows as she screeched, “Jack, what are you trying to say? I gave it to my parents as a daughter. How can

for mum in the hospital right now. If I can pay the bill now, the hospital can carry out the liver transplant immediately. From what I

what I worry about. It’s your

out in

thousand yuan

pathetic tone, “Katherine, you have to help me. Get it

I told you that I have given it to my mother. There’s no way I can ask

to pass away anyway, but you still keep burning money to the

that he was going to

you won’t call

could stop him, the

has given you

it back? My mom is dying. I need it to pay for her surgery since she is waiting for a

the other end of the phone, his mother-in-law Elissa

nonsense are you spouting now? Katherine has given us that money, and you have the gut to ask for it? We’ve never agreed to your marriage, so you should find

to return the money. How ridiculous! Let me make it clear. Tommy is going to marry soon, and we are going to use that two hundred thousand for the down payment of his future house. You

went dead. Jack was completely stunned. Didn’t Elissa understand

grabbed Jack’s clothes madly

you do that? Is it wrong for me to give

think your brother’s

“Nonsense!”

before grabbing the items in their house and threw them in a mess.

I have been eating frugally since I married you. We even rent this shit house now. Do you ever think about

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