Unwanted Marriage: Honey, No More Divorce!

Chapter 225: You Have Yourself To Blame

Unexpectedly, the outcome was not what Winnie wanted to see when she walked into the hotel room. She saw Wendy and Michael sitting on the bed and there were more than ten other people in the room. The five men she hired were also in the room. It was pin-drop silence in the room.

Winnie was dumbfounded. Shouldn’t Michael be in rage when he found out that Wendy had committed adultery? Why was the couple sitting there peacefully?

"Michael... what is going on?" Winnie asked, hoping to get a better sense of the situation.

"What do you think?" Michael gritted his teeth and shouted, "Mother!"

"How... how would I know?" Upon hearing Michael’s tone, she panicked. This did not seem like Michael had caught Wendy in the act.

"How would you not know?" Michael let out a cold laugh. He pointed at the five men who stood at one side of the room. "You recognize them? What can you deduce from this?"

"I... this..." Winnie did not know what to say.

"Fine. If you insist that you don’t know, I’ll tell you." Michael stood up and walked over to Winnie. He articulated clearly, word for word. "I know you don’t like Wendy. But I never would have thought that you would do something so malicious just to get rid of her."

Winnie gave a forced laugh, "Indeed I did not like Wendy in the past. But now I take a liking for her after getting to know her better and I want to be a good mother-inlaw to her."

"What a good mother-in-law you are!" Michael had expected that Winnie would not admit to her doings so easily. That was also why Michael did not blatantly state her doings from the beginning. It would be possible to have her confess only with evidence laid out in front of her. If he had confronted her when she stepped in, she could find all sorts of excuses to debunk them. freewebnøvel.coɱ

Michael reached his hand out to one of the men, "Phone!"

The man instantly unlocked his phone and put it in Michael’s hand. Michael checked the call history and tapped on a number. The phone dialed through and Winnie’s phone rang. It was then that Winnie realized she had been trolled.

Michael knew it all along and purposely tricked her into coming to the hotel.

"Pick up the call!" Michael looked at Winnie and shook his head in disappointment.

"Michael..." Though Michael had seen through her plans, she wanted to give it a last shot.

Acting innocent, she said, "Why do you need to call me? We can just speak face to face, isn’t it?"

"Mother..." Michael did not expect Winnie to try to deny even at this stage. "Do you think I am stupid? Up till now, you are still not confessing?"

"What do I have to confess about?" Winnie laughed. "I don’t even know what you are talking about anymore."

"Fine. If you really want to act blur, then I’ll make a police report and let them handle it."

Michael threw the phone on the floor and took out his phone, ready to call the police.

Winnie was shocked when Michael seemed like he was really going to make the call.

She immediately reached out to stop him.

"Michael, what are you doing? I am your mother! You intend to report me to the police?"

"You kept denying everything you have done. What more can I say? I can only ask the police to investigate." Michael said. "If I have wronged you, you can punish me in any way you want. But if you are the culprit, then don’t even think about me bailing you out, cause I will not."

"I..." Winnie took a step back. She got petrified when she saw Michael’s serious look.

She thought that since Michael was her son, even if she had done some things, he would not make things difficult for her. But now, he was about to call the police.

Winnie stepped forward and held onto Michael’s hand tightly. She shook her head, not wanting to believe that Michael would really call the police. "Michael, you won’t do it, right? I am your mother! Even if you forgo the fact that we are bonded by blood, if I become a convict, you will get affected as well. Aren’t you worried about your reputation? What about the company’s stock prices?"

Michael did not reply a word, but the phone in his hand had already dialled the number 911.

"Okay fine. I admit..." Winnie would not bet her life away. This son of hers would really make the call.

Winnie grabbed the phone from Michael and ended the call. She took a deep breath and threw the phone aside to somewhere Michael couldn’t reach.

She gazed across the room and her eyes landed on Wendy. Wendy felt uncomfortable about the eye contact. Right from the beginning, Winnie had a motive every time she reached out to Wendy. Although Wendy had her suspicions about Winnie, she gave Winnie the benefit of the doubt and hoped that she read too much into Winnie’s actions. Winnie was Michael’s mother after all and she was Michael’s wife.

Wendy wanted things between this mother-in-law of hers and her to get better someday. She had not recovered the memories from the past few years but with Winnie’s actions, Wendy came to realize that they would never resolve their differences.

Wendy heaved a sigh but did not say a word.

"Mother, you really let me down!" Michael closed his eyes. The heartache within him was torturous.

"I let you down?" Since Winnie had admitted her doings, there was nothing to hide anymore and Winnie might as well let it all out. "Michael, I only have one son and that is you. Your father has another family outside of us. All I can rely on is you. But, you..." ƒrēewebnovel.com

"Me? Did I not provide you enough to spend or what?" Michael shook his head as he rubbed and applied pressure to his temples.

"You know that is not what I want ultimately. I want you to lead the most influential corporation in Lake City and show Christian and Lily, that bastard family, who is more powerful!" Winnie got more agitated. "Do you know how the other ladies in affluent families discussed and gossip about me behind my back? Do you know your father brought Lily out to attend all kinds of official events instead of me? Do you know I suffer from insomnia every night and how unbearable it has been for me?"

"You have yourself to blame!" Michael yelled. "Decades ago, you could have agreed to the divorce but no, you chose to stay in this marriage that is just an empty shell. And me, you are only raising me up as a weapon to aid in your revenge. Why do you have to do this to yourself? And on top of this, you are forcing me down the path you took by breaking up my family."

"I won’t get a divorce. I will never do so in my entire lifetime." Tears rolled down Winnie’s cheeks. She wiped them off fiercely with the back of her hand. "I didn’t expect that you would do this to me just for Wendy. Look at you. You are behaving just like how your father treats Lily. That time, he abandoned us, his family, just to be with her."

"How can you compare these two scenarios?" Michael scoffed as he felt he couldn’t talk sense into Winnie anymore. She was consumed by her hatred. "My father had an affair outside of his marriage. I am officially wedded to Wendy by law. The relationship between you and Wendy are not even love rivals! Wendy had never been hostile to you. It was you who had been giving her trouble."

"Hur..." Winnie suddenly looked up and laughed hysterically. "But in my point of view, you two are the same. You are abandoning me for other women."