Who's Crying Now, Ex-Husband?

Chapter 157

At the hospital entrance, Charlotte paced impatiently, growing increasingly frustrated until she finally saw Hugo approaching. He looked disheveled, unsteady on his feet, and his mind seemed elsewhere.

"What took you so long? Did you get it? Did you manage to get it?" she demanded, her tone sharp and urgent. But Hugo only stared blankly at her, lost in his own world, which sparked Charlotte's anger. She slapped him hard across the face.

"Answer me! Speak!"

Hugo snapped back to reality, his eyes vacant, as he mumbled incoherently, "She doesn't want me anymore... my sister, she doesn't want me..."

He couldn't shake the image of his sister's bloodshot eyes filled with deep-seated hatred and disgust. She had never looked at him like that before. Never.

Did she really hate him now?

The thought made Hugo's heart ache, his eyes reddening with unshed tears. He had a sudden urge to rush back upstairs and explain, yet the memory of Eugene's threats held him back. Eugene was terrifying, as dangerous and intimidating as his brother-in-law. Hugo was genuinely scared.

within her, and she twisted

it weren't for his sister marrying into power and wealth, why would I bother with him?" she thought bitterly. "A sick woman in a hospital bed and

in her pocket. Irritated, she pulled back her hand, jabbing at the screen, eager

like a bolt of electricity: "I know

she was the

Impossible!

to find an untraceable string of digits, a virtual number. When she tried

another message arrived. This time, it was a photo. It showed a middle- aged woman in a hospital gown, her face gaunt, tubes protruding from her body as she

hands trembling so violently she nearly dropped the phone. Her knees felt weak, barely able to support

type out a response, "Who are you? What do you want? If you dare hurt my mom, the Harvey family

mocking: "Would the

ever intended to recognize her as his daughter, she and her mother wouldn't have been left out in the cold, struggling all these years. Her mother wouldn't have mysteriously fallen from a building, becoming a coma patient, kept alive only by costly