Divorced and Pregnant My New Life with a Billionaire Drives My Ex Crazy novel Chapter 585

Kellen stared at the man in front of her, eyes wide with shock and fear.

Her lips were dark and trembling. “The surgery... the surgery...”

“You mean... I didn’t have to be paralyzed?” Her voice shook. “Was it you? You refused to save me?”

“Jace, why didn’t you save me?”

“You’re a monster, a devil, a piece of trash...”

She jerked her head, trying to bite him, but Jace pulled back quickly.

He touched the bandages still stuck to his face and neck, his eyes flashing with bitterness.

“I’m trash? Who made me like this then?”

“Yeah, I could’ve saved you.”

“But Kellen, the surgery costs forty grand.”

“You ruined our wedding with your scandals, so now I can’t get the money Grandma left me. And because you faked a pregnancy to get attention, that money is just out of reach, probably forever.”

“So tell me, do you really think I’d spend forty thousand on you?”

“What makes you worth that much?”

He reached out, hands tight around her neck again.

He only needed to squeeze a little. That would be the end of it.

Kellen closed her eyes, feeling nothing but emptiness. All these years, she’d loved someone so cruel. Her heart was heavy with regret.

Let it end...

Maybe dying would be a relief.

Her life didn’t mean anything anymore.

Everything was ruined...

But suddenly, the pressure on her neck disappeared.

Jace let go.

“You want to die?” His voice was cold as he looked down at her, eyes full of disgust.

“It’s not that easy.”

“Kellen, you’re going to live. A long, long life.”

“Otherwise, how will you pay for what you’ve done?”

In that moment, real fear crept into Kellen’s heart.

She could already see how awful her future would be.

No, she didn’t want this. She couldn’t stand it!

“Please, let me go! Please! For the sake of what we once had... I’m begging you...”

Jace didn’t even blink. His face was stone.

“Let you go?”

“Who’s going to let me go?”

Who’s going to fix the mess inside him? Who’s going to take away his pain?

“If we have to suffer, we’ll do it together.”

Then he just walked out of the hospital room.

Kellen screamed and cried, but a nurse marched over and shoved a filthy rag in her mouth.

“So noisy.”

“And you still have the nerve to be alive.”

“Everyone knows about your scandals now. Your videos are all over the country.”

The nurse watched her, not even sure where to start cleaning.

And then came another round of insults and rough treatment.

As time passed, Kellen lost even the strength to think about ending it all.

The worse her life got, the more she clung to it.

Eventually, she was dumped in a nursing home. Jace signed her up for the cheapest care.

Whenever Jace was angry, he’d show up just to take it out on her.

Sometimes he’d just yell, other times he’d slap her. He never left calmly.

Two weeks later, the Salisbury family sold their old house.

It went for a measly two hundred million, bought by some investors.

Jace never got the money Grandma Grace had left behind.

Daniel, after collapsing at the wedding, never recovered. The Salisbury Corporation, already unstable, completely fell apart after the scandal.

The company’s reputation was ruined.

The whole Salisbury family became a joke.

Jace made the call. The Salisbury Corporation was officially bankrupt.

He used the money from the house sale to pay off what he could.

There was almost nothing left.

But at least most of the debts were gone.

When Daniel found out, he couldn’t take it. He lay in his hospital bed, pointing at Jace, his voice shaking with rage.

“You bastard, who told you to do this? Who gave you the right...”