Chapter 1200

"As for Nathan, you saw his true colors on New Year's Eve. He's a heartless

sociopath who doesn't deserve to be a father. And you definitely don't deserve to be a mother."

"The lengths I went to for you two are exactly matched by how much I despise you now."

"You two are the reason my life is in ruins. I've lost everything, and I'm barely keeping my own head above water. Don't ever call me again."

"You still have your son, and Nathan has four. This is none of my business anymore. Go leech off them."

Joanna hung up, the phone slipping from her fingers and hitting the floor with a dull thud.

She stood frozen by the window, her eyes squeezed shut as raw agony ripped through her.

"Ugh..."

Unable to hold it in, she collapsed to her knees, wrapping her arms around her shivering body as she wailed. Her entire body ached from the despair.

She had lost. She had truly lost everything.

Everything she ever cared about was gone.

Meanwhile, Natalie was out there living her best life, reaping all the glory.

"Ah!" Joanna shrieked, clutching her head in absolute agony.

Back at the hospital, Sophia slumped to the floor the moment Joanna cut her off.

She stared blankly out the window. Even Joanna had abandoned her?

Sophia blinked, thick tears streaming relentlessly down her face.

*Bzzzt. Bzzzt.*

Her phone buzzed against her palm.

She jolted back to reality. Seeing her son's caller ID on the screen, an inexplicable wave of dread hit her.

She rejected the call, but Alexander immediately dialed her back.

Sophia frowned, wiping her tears before finally answering.

"Hello!"

"Mom, save me! I got set up at the casino, and they're demanding fifty million dollars! Mom, you have to bring the cash to bail me out!"

Hearing her son's frantic screaming, Sophia felt the sky crashing down on her.

Was this karma?

She had tried to steal Wendy's empire and orchestrated the deaths of her five children.

Now, all that evil had boomeranged right back to her.

Her daughter had disowned her, and her son was a degenerate gambling addict.

She let out a manic, tearful laugh.

"Alexander, I have absolutely no way to help you. I even sold the villatt

can even afford to keep myself alive, let alone bail you out

"You're a grown man. You're on your own from now on."

"Mom, no!" Alexander shrieked. "Mom, you're the only one who can

help met you can't just abandon mët They set me up, I swear it wasn't my fault!" .

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"Boo-hoo-hoo... Mom, please, you have to save me! If you don't, they're going to chop off my hands!"

Sophia scoffed in disbelief. "It hasn't even been a few days! I just paid off

thirty million for you, and now you're

in the hole for another.

fifty? Event

robbed a bank, I wouldn't have that kind of cash. Figure it out yourself. And if you're going to die, go die far

away from me."

Sophia finally realized her son was a complete lost cause.

Even at their absolute worst, Wendy's four sons still treated their mother well.

"Mom..."

Sophia didn't give him the chance to finish. She hung up.

Everything was over.

Her son was a dead man.

Sophia went limp, collapsing onto the hospital floor.

On the bed beside her, Nathan lay paralyzed.

He watched Sophia faint in a rising panic.

"Ngh... ngh..."

He desperately tried to speak, but all that escaped his lips were pathetic, garbled grunts.

Helpless and suffocating in despair, tears streamed from the corners of his eyes as he stared at Sophia's unconscious body.

In the very end, Sophia was the only one who had truly cared for him.

It was sheer torture. He was completely crippled, and he still couldn't fathom how their lives had spiraled into this magnificent ruin.