Messing With Her? Are You Crazy! novel 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…”

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…

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.”

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?”

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.”

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…”

“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 household all these years! You treated her like this even before you knew she wasn’t your biological daughter?”

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…

Exactly 500,000 dollars!