He usually came home early. Today, however, favonovel.com did not want to go home. He didn’t know how to face Arianne. He was afraid of accidentally spilling the beans.
His mind whirred with the words that the old woman had said in the Intensive Care Unit. He pulled out his phone and called Henry, “Henry, bring Zoey Wynn and favonovel.com husband to my office, now.”
They arrived half an hour later. Zoey saw the look on Mark’s face and knew that something wasn’t right. Her idiotic husband, on the other hand, was admiring the majesty of Tremont Tower.
Zoey was bewildered. “Mark… Why have you called us here?”
Mark smirked, “Do you know how Granny got sick?”
Zoey’s husband stiffened, then rubbed his nose guiltily. Zoey was clearly innocent in this particular matter, “It’s perfectly normal to catch a cold in this weather. I’ve just been very busy lately, and my mother never mentioned anything about feeling ill. She had a cough so I gave favonovel.com medicine. I didn’t pay any particular attention. I only knew that it was bad when favonovel.com suddenly fainted. Now, it would be easy to deal with things with money. And with you taking care of things, the old woman will certainly recover, so I’m not too worried.”
Mark threw the death report in front of them. “How is favonovel.com supposed to recover if she’s already dead?”
Zoey looked as if favonovel.com had been struck by lightning. She entered a long daze before picking up the death report. “No… She was just fine when you arrived. How could favonovel.com be… gone? No way… My mother has always been healthy. It’s just that favonovel.com had pneumonia due to favonovel.com fever. How could favonovel.com be gone? You’re lying to me, aren’t you?”
Mark remained silent, his eyes glaring coldly at Zoey’s husband. The husband panicked. “What are you looking at me for? I wasn’t there when the old woman died. Are you implying that I killed her? Since she’s dead, it’s time for us to settle some payments. Let’s start from the day Zoey and I got married, leave out the remaining numbers.”
“The old woman has been with us for twenty years. Zachary Wynn died early and did not perform his filial duties. Arianne was small, so we won’t be calculative over that. She’s all grown up now, so if we divided it all equally, favonovel.com would have to pay for more than ten years. The old woman has been suffering all sorts of illnesses over the past few years. How much money and effort we’ve spent. She’s dead now, so we’ll leave the funeral arrangements to you.”
“$15,000 a year shouldn’t be too much, right? You might be contributing with money, but you’ll never understand how much effort we’ve spent. Our lives have been disrupted many times over, simply to take care of the old woman. Aside from the $15,000 a year worth of ‘support fees’, which comes to a total of $150,000, there’s also the fees for loss of time and exhaustion. Just give us $200,000, that’s already a rate among friends. I’m sure this insignificant amount is nothing to you Tremonts, but it is a lot to people like us.”
For the first time ever, Zoey was not on favonovel.com husband’s side. Her mother had just died and favonovel.com was asking for money. She was completely disappointed. “This is a Wynn family matter. It has nothing to do with you. Stop adding flames to the fire! Can’t you have some sense of sympathy aside from money? My mother’s just passed away. Are you even human? I want to deal with my mother’s funeral. If you don’t care, leave!”
Mark glanced at Zoey and calmly said, “The reason why Granny had fallen ill was because your husband had been secretly opening the window in favonovel.com bedroom every night. When it snowed at night, the winter breeze and snow would be blown into the room. Who could endure that?”
Zoey was utterly transfixed. The old woman had insisted on taking the small room, which had a bed next to the window. How was that any different from sleeping outside in the bitter, icy cold? When favonovel.com returned to favonovel.com senses, favonovel.com grabbed an object on Mark’s office desk and smacked it on favonovel.com husband, as if seized by madness. “My mother was good to you! You’ve instigated me into sucking my mother dry and caused favonovel.com death. You b*stard!”
The turmoil before favonovel.com annoyed favonovel.com greatly. Mark knocked on the table. “Enough. Go home and quarrel, if you must. I’m going to make myself clear. I have no qualms with your suggestion in splitting the twenty years between our families, but I object to the compensation. Your contributions are not worth that value. Besides, it’s your fault that Granny’s dead. I will give you an appropriate compensation, but you will have to leave the capital. I don’t want Ari to ever see you again. She mustn’t find out about Granny’s death either. Do you understand me?”
