Bye-bye Trash! Hello Queen! novel Chapter 200

The autumn breeze was cool and refreshing, and it helped to clear Jerome’s head a little.

“Mom, are we going for a walk in the park?” he asked with a smile.

“No.” Wendy’s eyes were cold. She stopped in a secluded spot. “Did you go to Natalie and tell her not to enter the competition? Did you tear up her designs?”

“Are you so sure she was even going to compete?”

“Yes. Joanna came home crying this morning because Natalie bullied her,” Jerome admitted freely. He had indeed gone to cause trouble for Natalie.

He looked away, at the sycamore trees in the distance, watching as an occasional leaf drifted to the ground.

Wendy knew that with Jerome’s stubborn personality, nothing she said would make him believe her.

She took out a stock transfer agreement. “You own five percent of the company’s shares. I need you to transfer them to me now. Someone is secretly buying up shares, and I can’t lose my position as chairwoman.”

Jerome was stunned. “Mom, is the company really in that much trouble? I’ll call my brother and have him come back to help you.”

“Don’t bother. A useless, lovesick fool and a coddled good-for-nothing. What help could they possibly be?” Wendy’s eyes welled with tears.

Her cold words shocked Jerome. “Mom, how can you talk about your sons like that?”

“Just answer the question. Are you going to give me the shares or not?”

Wendy stared at him, her heart sinking as she saw the hesitation in his eyes.

“Mom, you know my own company doesn’t make any money. My only income is the dividends from my shares. If I give them to you, I won’t have any money to live on.”

Furious, Wendy pulled out her phone and played a recording for him.

It was the conversation between Nathan and Joanna at the hospital.

Jerome listened, stunned. He looked at his mother’s red, tear-filled eyes and felt a wave of sadness. His mother had changed too. He let out a bitter laugh. “Mom, you’d really stoop this low just to get my shares? Why would Dad and Joanna do this to me? I’ve been so good to them.”

He simply couldn’t believe it. The sister he had doted on since childhood would never do such a thing. Joanna had always been kind-hearted. And his father had always loved and supported him in everything he did.

His mother was the one who had always been against his racing. She was just making this up to get him to stop.

Wendy sneered. “So, even with the evidence right in front of you, you still don’t believe me, do you?”