Chapter 3

I was stunned. "His wife's mother passed away?"

Kelly nodded.

"Yeah. That old woman was apparently from a single-parent family. Her mom worked hard to raise her alone and developed all kinds of health problems."

She wrinkled her nose.

"Talk about bad luck. That day was our five-year anniversary, and she just had to pick that day to die. So annoying!"

"I didn't want to let him go, but he said her mom died trying to save his parents from a fire, so he had to go."

"I managed to delay him for three hours, making him have sex with me twice before leaving."

"Thinking about it now, I'm still a bit angry!"

"If you ask me, that old hag deserved to die. She just had to go check on my sugar daddy's parents."

I suppressed the rage in my heart and said hesitantly:

"She was probably worried about them and wanted to make sure they were okay."

Kelly let out a scornful laugh and rolled her eyes.

"His parents usually live in a villa community with plenty of housekeepers taking care of them. Why would they need that dead old hag to check on them?"

"If it weren't for cooperating with my sugar daddy's act, they never would have gone back to that old rundown house."

"If they hadn't gone back, there never would have been a fire."

"So you see, that old hag just had a cheap life. She deserved to die!"

I clenched my fists.

"So you're saying your sugar daddy's parents always knew their son had become rich, but they went along with him to deceive his wife and his wife's mother?"

Kelly admired her manicure and said casually:

"No matter how heartless my sugar daddy is, he couldn't possibly let his own parents suffer, right?"

"His parents didn't want to go along with it at first. They gave my sugar daddy a harsh scolding."

"But when my sugar daddy mentioned that his wife probably couldn't even have children anymore, they agreed."

My heart felt desolate.

When I first met Howard, his father was critically ill and his mother was disabled. They were the type who got bullied by neighbors even in daily life.

When my mom found out I had a boyfriend, the first time she went to meet his parents, she saw them being bullied by a group of people.

Those people threw stones at them and dunked their heads in sewage for fun.

My mom's loud voice scared them off as she swung a broom at them.

Later, my mom felt sorry for them and would bring groceries to visit them from time to time.

My mom even paid out of her own pocket to find doctors to treat them, trying to lighten my burden.

That day, my mom went to check on them as usual, but a gas leak caused a massive fire.

Seeing the bad situation, my mom forced her body to carry his parents, who had already been knocked out by the smoke, outside.

My mom suffered severe burns over a large area of her body, and right before getting out, a falling beam crushed her leg.

That day I knelt in the hospital begging the doctor to save my mom.

The doctor said skin grafts and leg surgery were both major operations that would cost a lot of money—at least three hundred thousand.

That day I kept calling Howard, wanting to tell him to maybe withdraw the money from his bank account for emergency use.

But the phone just wouldn't go through.

My mom was tortured to death by the pain!

And he was rolling in the sheets with Kelly again?

Kelly seemed to remember something and laughed.

"Let me tell you, his wife kept calling while my sugar daddy and I were having the time of our lives, so I just threw the phone away."

"Later when we finally finished, my sugar daddy wanted to call his wife back. Guess who picked up? That dead old hag."

She laughed heartily. "I'm telling you, when I heard that old hag's voice, I moaned right into the phone."

"After a brief pause on the other end, she actually got so angry she started screaming at us through the phone, cursing us for being shameless."

"That day my sugar daddy got angry for the first time and actually slapped me."

She said indignantly, "Later I heard that dead old hag died."

She lowered her voice. "But let me tell you, that old hag actually could have survived."

"But my sugar daddy was afraid his wife would find out about his affair, so... he had someone pull the old hag's tubes."