Chapter 85 Olivia Homeless
"Giselle is right!" Eleanor nodded. "Willie, just make her return to the store and let her go start her own business. Whether she does well or not will have nothing to do with us, the Reed family. Otherwise, with her at the company every day, I just can't feel at ease."
Eleanor kept criticizing Nora, adding: "I went to see a fortune teller recently, and even the fortune teller said your company shouldn't keep relatives by marriage around, or sooner or later it'll go downhill."
The relatives by marriage clearly referred to Nora.
Willie felt conflicted.
Business people tend to believe in these things a bit.
Eleanor seized on this and kept pushing Willie, holding his hand and saying: "Willie, just listen to me. I wouldn't harm you. These relatives by marriage are useless. No matter how much you help her, she won't be grateful. Better to cut ties early. From now on, they're them, and we're us. Out of sight, out of mind, and no more fighting."
Eleanor had been nagging about this for half a year now. Willie heard it every day and was sick of it.
He frowned, his face looking terrible.
"Willie, instead of helping her, why don't you help me!" Terry joined in with his sob story. "I still have two kids to raise. If you don't want Nora's store, just give it to me. Take pity on me - I'm not educated, and if you don't help me, I really can't make it."
Terry wasn't educated. He just saw that Nora's store was making money now and wanted to grab it for himself.
That way, the big orders would be his!
Bianca chimed in, "Yeah, Willie, instead of giving that store to Nora, give it to your own family."
"Terry and Bianca are right!" Eleanor said. "Willie, back when the family didn't have enough money and could only afford to send one person to college, Terry gave up that chance for you. Now that you've made it, you can't just ignore Terry."
The whole family was crying poor in front of Willie.
Willie looked exhausted. He pressed his head and finally decided to handle this matter himself.
Yeah, solve it once and for all, and he'd never have to hear about it again.
He walked out of the hospital room. Olivia sat in the corridor, her elegant and gentle face expressionless.
"What's the verdict?" Seeing Willie come out, Olivia stood up.
"You should sit." Willie had her sit down.
Olivia sat down, supporting her waist.
Willie glanced at her. "Here's the thing, Olivia. My mom and the others want Nora to go out and start her own business."
Hearing this, Olivia's heart sank halfway. She seemed frozen, her eyes not moving for a long time. "What does that mean?"
"She's not part of the Reed family after all. It's not appropriate for her to stay at our company."
Olivia laughed coldly. "So you're like your family too - planning to take back Nora's store?"
Willie said, "I can compensate Nora with $100,000. She returns the store to the company, and I'll give her $100,000 as startup money to support her business."
Olivia's heart went so cold she didn't know what to say. Her eyes stared hatefully at Willie. "You said such nice things back then - that Nora was helping you start the business, that you'd treat her like a sister for life, teach her the business, and as long as she didn't want to leave, Apex Technologies Corporation would never kick her out..."
"Back then was back then, now is now. Don't you see the family fighting over Nora every day?"
"Why are they fighting?" Olivia hit the nail on the head. "Because Nora's store landed a big order and Terry got jealous, so he stirred up all this trouble just to take the store from Nora!"
Olivia deliberately spoke loudly so those troublemakers in the hospital room could hear. She didn't care anymore!
The Reed family were all jerks!
"Keep your voice down!" Willie grabbed Olivia's hand.
Olivia coldly shook off his hand.
In the past, for the sake of the children, she still wanted to stay with Willie. But today, Willie's actions had completely broken her heart.
He'd crossed her bottom line.
Olivia said loudly, "Nora built that store herself. No one can take it away!"
She said it deliberately for Terry to hear.
Sure enough, Terry came out supporting the wheezing Eleanor.
As soon as Eleanor came out, she tried to slap Olivia. "Hasn't Nora taken advantage of our family? What has she used at the company that wasn't ours? And you - pregnant and acting like a queen, with a special servant hired to wait on you at home, and that's not enough? You stir up trouble in our family every day. We give you spending money every month - how have we wronged you?"
Olivia firmly caught Eleanor's hand, the hatred in her eyes sharp as a blade at that moment. She looked at Willie. "Willie, when you were at your lowest, where was your family? They were all back home living comfortably. It was Nora and I who stayed with you, eating canned food every day, not willing to spend on anything, building up the company bit by bit. And now, because I'm pregnant, I've become someone begging you for money?"
"We don't make you go to work at the company, we let you stay home and enjoy yourself every day - what's there to be unhappy about? How many women in this world are as lucky as you? Sleeping in every day like a queen, not having to do anything, and you still get mad at me all the time. Do you think I'm living too long and want me to die early?"
"We never should have agreed to let you come to South City!" Olivia said bitterly.
This was the decision she regretted most in her life!
Eleanor cried out, "It hurts so much! Willie, Olivia's squeezing my hand so hard."
"Olivia, let go of my mom right now!" Willie pulled Olivia away.
Olivia almost fell. Luckily, she grabbed the chair beside her, or the consequences would have been unthinkable.
Seeing her almost fall, Willie wanted to check on her, but Eleanor cried even louder, "Willie, my head is so dizzy, I can barely breathe..."
Willie looked worried and helped Eleanor back into the hospital room, calling for a doctor.
Olivia was left alone. Pregnant with her big belly, at one in the morning, tears streaming down her face.
Suddenly, she felt a spasm in her stomach. She rushed to the hospital bathroom and threw up violently into the squat toilet.
All her dinner came up.
Her throat burned with a bitter sensation.
Olivia leaned against the stall, tears that wouldn't stop.
Since getting pregnant, she hadn't had a single happy day. She'd cried almost every day. This time, she thought Willie would at least take her side, but after Eleanor's tantrum, he sided with his family again. Sure enough, a wife is always an outsider.
Finally, too exhausted, Olivia went home first.
But she found her fingerprint had been deleted.
She couldn't get into her own home.
She tried several times - the door really wouldn't open!
Olivia's face went pale. She rang the doorbell, calling for the servant inside to open the door. "Lexine, my fingerprint won't open the door. Come open it for me."
Lexine came to the door and answered her, "Olivia, it was your mother-in-law's idea. She said not to let you in the house anymore."
Lexine was 50 years old and usually called her Olivia.
At that moment, Olivia felt like laughing bitterly.
She and Willie had dated in college, married at 22. When Willie had nothing, she chose him without hesitation and struggled alongside him.
Together for 3 years, married for 3 years - after 6 years together, in the end, her fingerprint was deleted by the Reed family, leaving her pregnant and homeless.