Chapter 4

"Enough! What else can you do besides make a spectacle of yourself?"

"Be a man and admit it!"

Of course, I'm a man, but I wouldn't admit that.

Because Katie's entire fortune came from me; she was the one spending *my* money.

But if I said it, they wouldn't believe me. They'd just mock me as a pretentious idiot.

My way of punishing people doesn't involve wasting words; it involves proving it with action.

I scoffed, then pulled out my phone and made a call.

"Get over here. Katie's saying I'm just a useless kept man of the Wilson family, a parasite who lives off them without doing anything. Please come and set her straight, otherwise, I'll make sure the Wilson family loses twenty billion dollars in ten minutes." The Wilson family's assets were only fifty billion. I hadn't even helped them soar higher, aiming for a hundred billion, and she'd already gotten so arrogant.

The person on the other end sounded terrified, shouting, "Get the car ready, now!"

I ended the call. Jasper looked at me with disdain and contempt.

"Heh! William."

"Do you even know what twenty billion dollars means?"

"And you'll make the Wilson family lose that much in ten minutes?"

"Katie, just fire him!"

"He's not just useless; he's a criminal for cursing your family!"

My words, combined with Jasper's prodding, enraged Katie.

She looked at me, her eyes filled with bottomless hatred.

"William, how dare you treat me like this? I won't let you get away with it."

"I'll have my lawyer send you the divorce papers as soon as possible. And please, take off that suit."

"That expensive fabric? You bought it with *my* money, didn't you?"

"Your money??"

I smiled meaningfully, looking at her. "You've got one thing wrong."

"The clothes I'm wearing aren't bought with your money. The luxury custom dress *you're* wearing is bought with *my* money."

"Understand?"

At my words, the whole room erupted in laughter.

"Hahaha, I'm dying of laughter!"

"I never thought he was pretentious before, but now that I see him, he's not only pretentious but also disgusting."

"Poor Katie, having to live with such a show-off for three years."

As the mocking voices grew louder, a hint of displeasure crossed my face.

Jasper clapped his hands, and the room instantly fell silent.

He turned to me, adopting his facade of fairness and impartiality.

"William!"

"No wonder people mock you. Because in our eyes, you really are just a kept man, a live-in son-in-law."

"You clearly spend Katie's money, and now you're turning it around and saying she spent yours."

"I'm a fair man. If you can provide proof within an hour that what you're saying is true, then I'll get down on my knees and do a striptease for you!"

My eyes lit up. This was a challenge that made my wasted time here playing their games worthwhile.

I sat back down, looking up at them with a playful gaze.

"Just you doing a striptease wouldn't be very entertaining. It'd be better if they joined in!"

Someone slammed a hand on the table and stood up. "William, you're insulting us!"

That person was furious until Jasper smiled and reassured her.

"What's there to be angry about? We're not the ones who are going to lose."

"What's there that I, Jonah De Rossi, can't play along with?"

With Jasper backing them, no one was afraid anymore.

"Fine, if you can prove you're not a useless kept man, then we'll..."

"Your figures are so scrawny; what's the point of stripping?"

"If we're going to play, let's play 'bark like dogs'."