Chapter 100
Chapter 100 Bargaining with the Dead
Chapter 100 Bargaining with the Dead
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Mrs. Summers had been bedridden these past few days, but her own daughter Sharon acted like she was blind to it -coming home only to complain and throw tantrums. The mother-daughter warmth that used to be there was long gone.
Mrs. Summers couldn’t help but think of Natalie.
After all, she’d raised that girl for eighteen years.
And now that she was seeing Sharon for who she really was, all those once-forgotten warm moments with Natalie started to come back to her.
Only now did Mrs. Summers realize how horribly she had treated her adopted daughter.
If… if only she hadn’t favored Sharon so much… if only she’d been kinder to Natalie even after Sharon came back… maybe the Summers family wouldn’t be in the mess it was now.
But there’s no such thing as “if” in this world.
Now, Jensen was the only one who could save the Summers family.
Before, she had thrown everything into protecting Sharon. But now, after seeing just how selfish Sharon really was, Mrs. Summers made up her mind: she had to secure a future-for herself and her husband.
The Summers family couldn’t fall.
So the moment she felt even a little better, she headed straight to Jensen’s company. But the secretary wouldn’t let her through, and she couldn’t even catch a glimpse of Jensen.
Jensen hadn’t been sleeping well lately. The shouting outside was giving him a pounding headache.
Face like a storm cloud, he walked out of his office.
Mrs. Summers lit up when she saw him. “Mr. Luke! I know something about Natalie!”
That did make Jensen’s expression soften, just a little.
“What do you want?”
“I want the Summers family to be like before. Mr. Luke, we can’t go under. We raised Natalie for eighteen years. Even if we weren’t related by blood, she was still brought up by me. There are things only I know. If you help restore the Summers family, I promise to tell you everything I know about Natalie.”
She looked at him, eyes filled with hope.
Jensen frowned. “Are you threatening me?”
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“No, no! I really do know things about Natalie. And-if you help the Summers family-I’ll even tell you something about Sharon.”
“Mom!”
Sharon had heard Mrs. Summers had come to see Jensen. Despite feeling sick, she rushed out in a panic-but she was too late.
She arrived just in time to hear her mother’s last sentence.
A secret about her?
Was she going to expose the truth about her faking her illness?
Or was she going to bring up the rib donation from five years ago?
No. No, no, no!
She couldn’t let Mrs. Summers spill those things.
Whether it was the cancer lie or the rib donation-it all had to stay buried forever.
Sharon was panicked as she rushed forward, gripping her mother’s arm with a forced smile.
“Mom! What are you doing? Jensen is really busy-have you thought about how this makes me look?” This text is hosted at
She was fuming inside.
That old witch.
It was bad enough she lost her at birth-but now she was back to ruin the life she’d worked so hard to build?
All because she didn’t help the Summers family?
But Sharon knew better than to lash out. Not now. Not when her mother had something that could destroy her.
“Mom, I’ve never stopped caring about the Summers family. Jensen’s just been busy lately, but I promise-once he’s got time, he’ll help us. Don’t worry, okay? If it comes to it, I’ll give you and Dad everything I have for retirement.”
She spoke sweetly, but her hand was pinching the soft flesh of Mrs. Summers’ arm-hard.
Mrs. Summers winced.
She was beginning to lose trust in her daughter.
Sharon, seeing her mother hesitate, added quickly, “You’re not thinking of dragging Natalie into this again, are you? You think Jensen’s that easy to fool? If you really had any secrets on Natalie, wouldn’t you have used them years ago? Besides, how did you treat her back then? If there was something, you’d have used it to control her a
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long time ago. Mom-Natalie’s dead. Don’t use her name to trick Jensen.”
Her words made Jensen pause.
Yeah…
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If Mrs. Summers had any real dirt on Natalie, she would’ve used it long ago. But for the past five years, she and Natalie hadn’t had any contact.
So was she just bluffing to save the Summers family?
His face darkened.
“Mrs. Summers, is what Sharon said true?”
Mrs. Summers began to panic.
“No, Mr. Luke, please let me explain-”
“Mom! You’re still not well. I know you’re worried the Summers family will fall apart, but don’t worry. As long as I’m here, it won’t.”