Chapter 1211

Thalassa felt her breath quiver as she pieced together the dominoes of cause and effect that led to this moment. It was a cocktail of humiliation and helplessness – humiliation on behalf of her mother and helplessness in the face of their stark reality.

Bruce, on the receiving end of a hung-up call from Thalassa, was livid. His temple veins bulged menacingly as he fought the urge to slam his phone to the ground.

Lucy caught his wrist just in time. “Easy there, tiger,” she said, her voice laced with worry. “We’re already broke. If you break that phone, we won’t even have the money to buy a new

one.”

Her face was a canvas of sorrow, eyes still glistening with the remnants of tears. Tentatively, she probed, “So, did Thalassa agree to lend you the cash?”

“Fat chance!” Bruce spat out the words like venom.

Lucy flinched under his roar but persisted, her voice soft, “But she’s your daughter. How could she refuse to help in your time of need?”

actions, nor the fact

phone and hadn’t heard a word of their conversation. It was only Bruce’s near-smash of the phone that had

her with pure loathing. “What daughter? I never played the father role in her life, never provided for her. Why the hell should she help

to help Susan get close to Lysander?”

mounting.

forehead veins more pronounced, he glared at

with my phone or computer? Did you lose my files?” Bruce demanded, his

Lucy still had. He had been wary

sake of money, even hiding his affair with Evelyn to

was no more facade to keep.

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demeanor, Lucy stumbled backward, stammering, “I didn’t touch your phone or

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