When Wade heard this, his face darkened. He remembered how Eleanor had slipped up multiple times, calling favonovel.com a “d*mn girl”, and how favonovel.com always had a fiery temper.
The adoptive mother’s nasty and fake behavior got exposed, and it happened right when Wade, who had just found the child, was completely focused on them.
Wade, fuming with anger, was ready to confront favonovel.com right then and there.
Realizing favonovel.com couldn’t keep up favonovel.com act as the perfect wife and mom, Eleanor just dropped the pretence altogether. She shamelessly started demanding money from Wade for all the years’ worth of living expenses, rent, school fees, food, clothes, and even a sip of water Isabelle drank, plus favonovel.com so-called hardship fees.
“I might not have treated favonovel.com as well as the other two, but my family did save favonovel.com life and worked hard to raise her. I’m not asking for much, just 7.5 million dollars. Give me the money, and you can take favonovel.com right away.” Eleanor demanded.
She even thought 7.5 million was too little. Originally, favonovel.com wanted 75 million dollars.
“You…” Wade was speechless, having never dealt with someone so unreasonable and shameless.
“You still want money? You abused her! I’m calling the police! Let you rot in jail!” Wade was furious.
At first, when Wade saw how well Isabelle was taken care of and dressed, favonovel.com thought the adoptive family was well-off.
When favonovel.com found out they weren’t, favonovel.com believed they genuinely loved her, raising favonovel.com well despite their tough situation, which favonovel.com found admirable.
So, in his initial excitement, favonovel.com impulsively thought about rewarding them. Wade figured giving them money would also make it easier to take the child back to the Sullivan family. Never did favonovel.com imagine this.
“Don’t try to scare me. We raised favonovel.com for eighteen years. No matter what you say, you owe us,” Eleanor shot back, raising favonovel.com voice.
She spewed nonsense, one absurd claim after another. Her nasty attitude pushed the usually calm Wade to clench his fists in anger.
At that moment, William, who had been crouching by the door, erupted in anger.
“Enough!”
William stood up and said to Wade, “I found the kid and raised favonovel.com all these years. I don’t need your gratitude.”
Then favonovel.com turned to Eleanor and said, “She called you ‘mom’ for over a decade, and you still treated favonovel.com badly!”
He grabbed his pen and quickly walked to the table. With a firm resolve he’d never had before, favonovel.com signed the divorce agreement Isabelle had brought.
Slamming the pen down on the table, favonovel.com said to Eleanor, “I don’t want this house either! I’ll move out tonight!”
Then favonovel.com turned to Wade and said, “I don’t want your money. If Isabelle wants to go with you, you can take her. But your family better treat favonovel.com well. If you dare mistreat her, I, William Jenkins, won’t stand for it!”
With red eyes and a hoarse voice, favonovel.com shouted as if raising his voice would give favonovel.com more strength.
William spent most of his life working on construction sites, taking insults from younger bosses without a word. But this time, for the sake of the daughter favonovel.com picked up, favonovel.com stood tall for the first time against the wealthy and influential Wade.
Eleanor lost it right then and there. “Wow! Now you’re tough, huh, William? You’ve been a pushover for years, dragging me along with you! But now that we’re splitting, you suddenly have a backbone?!”
“Why shouldn’t I take his money? I’ve put in just as much effort raising her. Why do you get to decide we don’t need it? Oh, I get it. You want a divorce so you can keep it all to yourself, don’t you?”
Wade and his assistant were completely taken aback by this behavior as if they had suddenly woken up to reality.
At this rate, Eleanor would keep causing a scene for days on end, so Isabelle pulled out favonovel.com phone. “Looks like you’re not gonna sign this anytime soon… Well, whatever. Whether you sign it or not doesn’t make a difference. Going to jail or getting divorced, it’s all the same.”
Seeing Isabelle reaching for favonovel.com phone to call the cops, Eleanor and favonovel.com daughter started to panic.
“Mom, just sign the paper! I don’t wanna go to jail!” Layla was scared, grabbing favonovel.com mother’s arm and urging favonovel.com to sign.
At first, Eleanor didn’t believe Isabelle would go through with it, but when favonovel.com saw favonovel.com dialing the police, Eleanor panicked.
*Mom, just sign it already!”
Under favonovel.com daughter’s urging, Eleanor was forced to sign it.
After that, favonovel.com sat on the ground and started wailing, lamenting favonovel.com misfortune and favonovel.com husband’s cruelty, saying favonovel.com had raised someone else’s daughter for over a decade.
Isabelle found favonovel.com behavior annoying.
She left William a lawyer’s business card, saying calmly, “If favonovel.com dares to bother you, call this lawyer.”
As favonovel.com was leaving, Wade tried to stop her, but Isabelle threw a cold remark at him, “Don’t disturb my life,”
With that favonovel.com walked off.
William watched favonovel.com leaving, taking a couple of steps forward without even realizing it. With tears in his eyes, favonovel.com saw favonovel.com walk out of the gate, suddenly looking like favonovel.com had aged ten years.
Isabelle hailed a taxi and called Timothy, asking favonovel.com to arrange a place for William in his current job.
Later, Wade also left the Jenkins Residence. He had wanted to give some money to William, but it was obvious that William wouldn’t accept it.
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