Thirdly, she tried to solicit money from me.
On Olivia’s third birthday, I went back home to receive the presents my mother had prepared for Olivia.
When Wendy saw me, she immediately burst into tears.
“Dad, you must help Liam. If you don’t help him, my son and I won’t survive.”
I knew she had said that on purpose for me to overhear. I feigned ignorance.
“Liam put his trust in the wrong person, that’s why he lost all his money. I’m not asking for a lot. I just need five hundred thousand dollars.”
Wendy sobbed pitifully.
She was not feeling the pinch because it was not her money.
My father was a lawyer, and my mother was a restaurant owner. Since young, they had sent her to private schools.
They even sent her to study overseas because of her bad grades.
My parents did not fork up a single cent for my marriage because I married rich.
My mother said she had stashed away my wedding funds as emergency savings for me. Instead, she had given the money to Wendy.
Not only that, they even gave Wendy two houses as a wedding gift.
By the third year of her marriage, she went back home crying over money.
She still had a long way to go.
“Ruby, why are you pretending like you’re not hearing this? Aren’t you supposed to help your brother-in-law?
“Do you really want Charlie and me to be homeless? Why are you so cruel?
“Mom, Dad, look! This is what we get for taking her back to us.”
Wendy could not stand that I was ignoring her. Hence, she exploded before she could finish her crying act.
I had the means to help her, but I really did not want to.
In the past, when I married Liam, he had revealed his true colors in less than a week because my parents never forked up money for our wedding.
He had seemed like a good, caring person on the surface. However, he was a rotten human being with bad friends and bad habits like frequenting brothels, casinos and more.
He was basically a black hole. No amount of money could fill that.
In the end, he could no longer remain in this city. He brought me back to his hometown in the countryside. There, I learned that he had some previous marriages.
He demanded that I take care of his first wife, his mother, and all his other family members.
I was too tired to even contemplating to kill myself. Even eating felt like a luxury to me.
“Ruby, I’m talking to you! Your husband is so rich. It’s fine if he lends some money to Liam!”
Wendy saw that I was not answering her, so she moved to strike me.
“Hey, stop fighting! You’re sisters.”
My mother pulled Wendy aside and coaxed her.
Then, she dragged me into the kitchen.
“Ruby, she’s your younger sister. Just throw her a lifejacket, we can’t just let her suffer like that.”
I sneered and recalled the night my first child had a high fever in the past.
It was raining heavily, and I had walked to the hilltop mansion and begged Wendy to give me some money so I could bring my child to a doctor.
With a glass of red wine in her hand, she had instructed her butler to throw my child and I out into a ditch.
By the time I crawled out from that ditch, my child had gone completely cold.
“Mom, Dad, I bet you don’t know that Wendy has already sold off the two houses you gave her to pay off Liam’s debt?
“And Liam didn’t lose his money because his business failed. Instead, he gambled all the money away!”
“Ruby, shut up! What nonsense are you telling our parents!”
Wendy picked up a broom and started to strike me.
After hitting me a few times, my nose started to bleed.
I kept dodging her attacks as I yelled.
“It’s true! You can look into it!
“Why should I lend her money? Her husband will take all of her money anyway!”
“Wendy! You! How dare you…”
My father was extremely furious.
“Wendy! Are you insane? We bought those houses with our life-savings! We gave them all to you! How dare you use it to…”
My mother was so furious that she passed out.
