Chapter 119: Clarification
The Substitute Wife: My Poor Husband Is A Billionaire
Janet walked past the crowd of guests in fancy clothes and strutted toward Fiona with an indifferent
look on her face.
Janetâs beautiful eyes turned cold, revealing all the disappointment and anger accumulated in her heart
over the years.
Every time Fiona looked at Janet, she wanted to pluck Janetâs beautiful eyes out of their sockets.
"Have you ever shown kindness and warmth to me? You have humiliated and tormented me all my life,
and now you call me ungrateful? Thatâs absurd!"
Janet said calmly as if impervious to Fionaâs ruthless comments.
Fiona was an extraordinary actress.
Tears welled up in her eyes.
"We adopted you and raised you with great efforts, but youâve always milked us for money.How does
that make you a good daughter?" Fiona said, waving her hands dramatically.
Her dramatic performance in the Larson Group a few days ago had already attracted everyoneâs
attention.
Moreover, Janet hadnât explained herself to anyone.
Many people regarded her as an ungrateful daughter, and some even took videos on their phones.
However, Janet didnât care about what people thought of her.
"You abandoned me after Jocelyn was born.You sent me to the countryside to live with Hannah.You
never cared about me.Hannah was the one who took care of me.She is all I have.I came to you
because she was ill, and you promised to give me the money in exchange for a favor.I kept my end of
the bargain, but youâve been cheating me.Why are you creating a scene in front of everyone?"
Fiona wiped the tears from the corner of her eyes and sniffed loudly.
"What nonsense! Youâre just blabbering." Janet laughed, shaking her head.
"Your neighbors donât know me, and my neighbors in the countryside havenât seen you.I donât even
have a picture with you.You better think twice before lying.Do you have any evidence to prove that you
raised me? Look, I donât want to talk about the past.Iâm grateful to you for giving me a shelter even
though you all have loathed me."
If Fiona hadnât slandered Janet in front of everyone, she wouldnât have uttered a word about the past.
Janet didnât have a home that she could call hers.
It was just another place she didnât belong, where she was abandoned by her "family" again.
Fiona looked around helplessly.
Janet took out her passbook that had a record of the money Bernie and Fiona had sent Hannah over
the past twenty years.
She sneered at Fiona and threw it on her face.
"You were bragging about raising me and accused me of milking you all for money.But this proves how
much youâve really spent on me.You two have been giving only 200 dollars a month for the past twenty
years â â not a penny more.
Is that what you call âraising me with every penny you have? You always take Jocelyn to fancy
restaurants.One dinner of yours are at least twice or thrice my monthly expenses.Canât you see the
irony here?"
The crowd burst into an uproar.
Most of the women attending the parties offered generous tips.
They didnât think 200 dollars was a good tip, let alone be a good monthly allowance.
"You are lying! We gave you more than that."
Fiona was rendered speechless.She hugged her handbag to avoid the surprised gazes of the people
staring at her.
"We have always been generous with you!" Janet rolled her eyes.
Fionaâs response didnât surprise her.She still couldnât figure out why Fiona hated her so much.
The woman despised her with a vengeance.
When she still stayed with them in their house, Fiona would scold Janet for even the smallest things.
"I didnât ask you to adopt me, did I?"
Janet sounded calm and composed.
"Since you adopted me, you are obligated to raise me.Considering your wealth and income, the money
youâve given me every month does not even cover the standard child custody.I canât even meet my
monthly expenses.I owe what I am today only to Hannah.She struggled to raise me, with her own
savings.Youâve done nothing I should be grateful of."