The Billionaire Ex-Wife and the Beggar He Became novel Chapter 470

The lawyer shot Julian a sharp look. "Mr. Nicholson! This is all because of your selfishness, your arrogance, and your boundless cruelty to your wife! You knew you had a wife! You knew her former name was Shepherd! Why did you hide the truth?"

"I..." Julian stammered. At this point, no amount of regret could change anything. He couldn't bring himself to look at Winona.

In truth, hadn't he already gotten what he deserved?

To be with Felicity, he had gone through a video divorce with Winona, given up all his assets, and endured the scorn of the entire city for days. He thought that was the end of it, but it was only the beginning of his misfortune.

From moving the Shepherd family into his home, to being tricked into accepting Felicity's two children at their wedding, to the rage he felt seeing those children that drove him to drink, leading to cystitis and a ruptured seminiferous tubule that required surgery and left him sterile... it was all a vicious cycle.

Even now, returning to his villa and seeing the Shepherd family's pretentious act made his skin crawl. His life was a complete and utter mess.

But Felicity was pregnant. And she was the head of the retirement project. For all these reasons, he had no choice but to endure it.

This was his punishment for six years of coldness toward Winona and three months of arrogant dismissal of her requests for a divorce.

Meanwhile, Winona, who had struggled through the mud, was finally seeing her fortunes turn. She had found both love and wealth.

Julian looked at Winona, a bitter smile on his face. "Winona, now that you've inherited the trillion-dollar fortune of Mr. Frank's wife's family, you've finally found your happiness. I'm sorry for everything I did to you before..."

Julian looked puzzled. "Tiana has been a bit off lately. Her moods swing wildly. She's difficult with me, but perfectly well-behaved with Felicity's family..."

"You son of a bitch! You bastard! Julian, why don't you just go die! Go die!" Winona screamed at him like a madwoman.

A terrible feeling washed over Julian. "Did something... happen to Tiana?"

"Tiana's thighs are covered in bruises from where your mother-in-law, Henrietta, has been pinching her! The child came back to me with a fever of over 104 degrees! Even after the fever broke, she can't sleep through the night. She keeps screaming in terror, 'The big monster! The big monster!'" Yves Prescott told Julian, his voice heavy with pain.

Julian was speechless.