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. He turned around and stared at Katherine, “Where’s the money?”
She looked flustered as she started to stammer. “Did you give it to your family again?”
Jack raised his eyebrows with a bitter smile.
a cigarette box from
been married for three years, and that had happened before. “Katherine, that money is my last hope to
said tiredly, “Can we get
“Get it back?”
as she screeched, “Jack, what are you trying to say? I gave it to my parents as a daughter. How can I ask them to return
for mum in the hospital right now. If I can pay the bill now, the hospital
not what I worry about. It’s your problem and you
in tears as she mumbled. “How do I get two hundred thousand yuan
his head was going to explode, but he still begged Katherine in a pathetic tone, “Katherine, you have to help me.
she sat on the floor, “Your mom is going to pass away anyway, but you still keep burning
he was
phone as he threatened, “If you won’t call them, I will do
stop him, the
has given you two hundred thousand
it to pay for her surgery since she is waiting for a liver transplant in
end of the phone, his mother-in-law Elissa rebuked him with a shriek, “Jack, what nonsense are you spouting now? Katherine has given us that money, and you have the gut to
gratitude to us two for raising her, but you, a poor guy from the countryside, want us 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
the phone went
on that money to save her life!
Jack’s clothes madly as she howled, “How can you do that? Is it wrong for me to give some money
“So you think your brother’s new house is more important
“Nonsense!”
grabbing the items in their house and
how much you have burnt for your mother? I have been eating frugally since I married you. We even rent this shit house now. Do you ever think about me? Tommy is my little brother. So is yours. He is going to marry. How can you blame
“Lending a helping hand?”
the moment, “Over the past three years since we are married, how many times have you helped that useless Tommy, a man doing nothing but living off