Wife is a Lawyer novel Chapter 40

Her heart felt a bang of pain as soon as she recalled that awful memory.

“Mom, stop being so mean! If it weren’t because of Adriana, I would have been dead on the street yesterday!”

Back in the old days when Thelma was abusing Adriana, Jenkins would always come to solace her.

Though years had passed, his kind nature still remained the same.

Undoubtedly, Adriana was moved by Jenkins's words, but she still felt greatly disappointed because of the harsh words of Thelma.

Though Thelma had adopted her, as return, Adriana was required to do all kinds of housework day and night at home. Once Thelma got a bit displeased, she would starve Adriana as punishment.

As Adriana grew up, she was required to work on her own to pay the tuition. What was worse, Thelma had been asking her for the money she earned to pay for the education. But thanks to Jenkins, Adriana managed to graduate.

“I am being mean? This ungrateful bastard deserves it! I have been struggling to bring her up. But she literally ran over for years! Can you believe that?”

During the past four years, Thelma had been living a privileged life.

However, no matter how hard she tried to make herself noble by putting on extravagant make-up, she still looked like a shrew.

Nothing changed.

Adriana frowned, feeling disgusted.

“Jenkins, take care. I gotta go.” She didn’t want to argue with Thelma. Nor did she want to hear her smearing.

"Adriana…" Jenkins sighed. But he could do nothing about it.

“Hey, stop!” Thelma huffed while looking at her from head to toe. She noticed that Adriana was wearing famous-brand clothes, while her wristwatch was worth at least hundreds of thousand as she had once seen in a mall.

Greed started to grow in Thelma’s mind.

“Hey, I know you hate me. It’s okay. But I think I have the right to ask for return for bringing you up. If it weren’t for me, everything you have at this moment should have been gone impossible. Girl, you gotta learn to be grateful.” While speaking, Thelma postured to stand in her way.

“Mom, what are you talking about?” Jenkins was rendered so embarrassed when hearing that.

How greedy!

Adriana sighed. She knew she might need to compromise this time.

“How much do you want?” she forced out a fake smile at Thelma.

She once assumed that Thelma would have changed to be kind during the past four years. But the fact told that she was wrong.

It would be hard to change one’s nature.

“That’s what I want!” she stretched out all her five fingers.

“Five hundred thousand?”

“Are you kidding me? I mean five million!” her greed was running wild.

“Five million?” Adriana frowned and sneered, “there is a bank opposite the hospital.”

“Oh, are we going to get money right now? No bother. You can have the money wired to my account.” Said Thelma.

Looking at her excited face, Adriana shook her head, “No, I mean if you want that money so badly, you can heist the bank on your own and get as much as you want.”

Jenkins couldn’t help shouting, “Mom, are you crazy? She just returned from LA. How can she pay such a big sum of money? She hasn’t got a place to settle down yet.”

“Just return from LA?” Thelma seemed to come up with an idea, “Okay. As your mom, you can live in my house from now on. But remember to pay me twenty thousand per month. That should be a bargain for you to afford.”

She postured as if she were doing something generous.

Adriana sneered.

What a brassy shrew!

“Mom, shut up!” huffed Jenkins.

However, Thelma shouted back, “You shut up! How dare you shout at your mom! Look, don’t you see the luxury outfit she is wearing? I just ask something for return. Is it too much to ask? If it weren’t for me, she would have died of starvation!” still, she kept accusing Adriana of being ungrateful.

Though Adriana had been good-tempered, she was irritated this time.

While her rage was about to explode, she suddenly realized that Jenkins was still here. To avoid getting him annoyed, Adriana held back her anger.

She sighed, “Jenkins, see you next time.”

She no longer wanted to stay for even one more second.

She walked pass Thelma to leave. However, Thelma simply grabbed on her bag to stop her, “Stop! Never shall you leave before you pay the money!”

Adriana was getting crazy.

“Hey, let go! Or I will call 911!” Adriana was mad.

“Try it, you ungrateful bastard! I would like to see if the police will be on your side!” Thelma kept on shouting.

“Ungrateful? Ever since you adopted me, I had been working as a slave for you! I earned myself money to pay for school! It was I again who earned a million to pay for Jenkins’s treatment! I owed you nothing from then on! Listen up, I won’t pay you a penny even if I were a billionaire at this moment!” Adriana shouted with her chest heaving out of madness. Her face went blushed because of anger.

“The million you paid was for your brother! Not for me!” Thelma shouted.

“It was you who asked me for that money! And you even tryna make me a stripper in the club to get money for you! Think about it, you asshole!” Adriana looked horrible with her eyes bloodshot. Her rage seemed to stun Thelma.

Adriana bypassed her to leave.

As soon as she pushed the door open, she was stunned when seeing the man standing at the door, “Why…why are you here?”

It was Peter. But she couldn’t figure out why he showed up outside the ward of Jenkins. Was it because of guilt?