Chapter 104
Hailey would definitely be better than Serena!
“Honey, what are you standing there for? Let’s get ready and go to Le Céleste to wait for the Lancasters!” Marianne said, taking Hailey’s arm to go change her clothes.
But Patrick remained motionless, staring blankly at his phone.
“Le Céleste is the most luxurious fine dining establishment in all of Vaelion City Patrick frowned. “Given the Wynn family’s current situation p>
A meal at Le Céleste was an extravagant expense.
Even a table in the main dining hall would cost at least 300,000 dollars.
There was a time when they wouldn’t have thought twice about such a sum.
But now, with contracts being terminated and banks calling in their debts, their liquid assets were p>
They really couldn’t pull together that kind of cash.
Marianne hadn’t realized their situation was this dire. “But… this is our last chance p>
Patrick ran a hand through his hair, looking completely disheveled.
Suddenly, an idea seemed to strike him. “Last time… where is that card Serena left p>
The day Serena left, she had left a card to sever ties with them completely.
At the time, he had given the card and the list to the butler for verification.
After that, he had completely forgotten about it.
“You really believe that country girl Serena could have 500,000 dollars?” Marianne narrowed her eyes and sneered.
“Where is the card?!” Patrick had no time to argue with her about Serena. He could find out if the card had money on it just by checking!
If it did, it would solve their immediate problem.
Marianne pouted and turned to walk toward her room. “The butler verified everything and gave the list and card to me. I just tossed them in a drawer p>
She didn’t believe for a second that Serena had only spent 500,000 dollars in four years with the fam nor did she believe.
produce that a Serena
mount
Patrick was too impatient to wait for her. He immediately rushed into the room himself.
He opened the drawer and, sure enough, saw a stack of papers and a bank card.
He took them all out and gave them a quick scan.
One of the papers was a clearly printed, itemized list from the butler, detailing all of Serena’s expenses over the past four years.
He flipped straight to the last page to look at the total.
Total expenses: 187,600 dollars.
In four years, living in their supposedly wealthy family, all of Serena’s expenses amounted to just over 180,000 dollars.
Moreover, he scanned the itemized list.
That money had been spent on the clothes and accessories they had bought for her when she first
arrived to avoid gossip-and on the cost of the meals she ate and the water she drank at home.
There wasn’t a single line item for Serena’s personal, discretionary spending.
In other words, in four years, Serena had not used a single cent of the Wynn family’s money for herself.
The number felt like a heavy slap across his face.
“This… this is impossible Marianne snatched the list, staring at the total. “The
Wynn family isn’t so poor that we’d mistreat a daughter p>
“The butler listed every single item. How could it be fake?” Patrick’s face darkened, “I have no idea how you’ve been managing this
all
household aff
these years! You treated her like this
even before you knew she wasn’t your biological daughter p>
He snatched the list back and crumpled it into a ball.
This was an utter disgrace to him as the head of an elite family!
Patrick then picked up the other paper, a bank statement, and glanced at it. The
balance showed that the bank card did indeed contain p>
Exactly 500,000 dollars!