The Disguised Billionaire She Rejected

Chapter 3

Marcus couldn’t believe what he was hearing.

 Travis was saying all this when he was the one who had stirred everything up by sending those intimate photos to him. The hypocrisy made him scoff.

Meanwhile, Travis’s words only earned him even more sympathy from Jessica.

She turned on Marcus angrily. “Are you even human? How can you lack compassion and be so wicked? Travis has no one! And now you want to drive him out?”

Marcus scoffed. “When did you become like this?” He looked at her, truly looked at her, and realized she had become a complete stranger to him.

Jessica snapped back, “What do you mean? I’m just taking care of someone who needs it. The miserable one here is you. Stop being a crybaby and grow up. Live with it. Travis will stay here and I will keep looking after him.”

Marcus stared at her in disbelief. “No, I can’t live with it. Tell me… when is all this going to stop?”

“It isn’t going to stop,” she shot back, “because he needs me. And unlike you, he actually supports me instead of being useless.”

Marcus flinched. “Useless?”

Jessica folded her arms. “Yes. Useless. You contribute nothing. You’re always insecure, always suspicious. You create problems out of thin air and then blame others.”

“I created this?” Marcus' voice cracked.

She scoffed. “You’re jealous. That’s all this is. You can’t stand that someone else depends on me”

At that moment, everything felt utterly absurd to Marcus. He didn’t argue anymore. He tightened his grip on his bag and remained firm in his decision.

“Fine,” he said calmly. “Then let me leave, so you can take care of him properly.”

Jessica’s face twisted with anger. “If you walk out that door now, don’t ever come back. Our relationship will be officially over. Understand that.”

She sneered. “You don’t even have anywhere else to go. You’ll just go out there and suffer by yourself. Stop being stubborn and think twice.”

In a completely emotionless voice, Marcus replied, “That’s exactly what I already told you on the phone. I don’t want anything to do with you anymore.”

She was shocked. She had expected him to be scared because she believed he was nothing without her.

She blurted out, “Marcus! You are nothing without me! Remember that! Don’t do something you’ll regret.”

Marcus scoffed. “The one who will regret this is you.”

The argument finally caught the attention of Jessica’s mother, Morgan, who was upstairs. She came downstairs with a displeased expression.

“What’s going on here?”

Her gaze landed on Marcus, filled with disdain. “You again. What have you done this time? Always stirring up trouble. Why do you keep stressing my daughter?”

Travis sighed and said, “Maybe you should ask your daughter.”

Morgan’s eyes hardened. “Watch how you speak about my daughter. You are no longer on her level. She is a multimillionaire CEO now, and you are nothing but a useless freeloader. A pauper. A poor orphan living off my daughter’s success. You should have learned to obey her in everything if you wanted to earn your place in this family.”

Then she added coldly, “After all, you are nothing like Travis—who actually knows how to make people like him.”

Marcus had wanted to avoid this. He knew exactly how it would end. She would only keep shouting.

“You don’t even hear what happened and you are already judging me?” he asked.

“Oh, I don’t need to hear anything from you,” she snapped. “Men like you always have a pitiful excuse ready.”

“Mom…” Jessica mumbled weakly.

Morgan continued viciously, “You should have been kneeling in gratitude every single day that someone like my daughter tolerated you. You—poor, insignificant, contributing nothing but noise. An opportunist. A moocher. A pathetic, worthless man.”

Travis felt a flicker of discomfort, but he remained silent.

“If you wanted to stay in this family,” she went on, “you should have learned obedience. A man with nothing should at least know how to be humble. I know you are threatened by her success because you have none.”

“Either you do that, or leave my daughter alone.”

Coldly, Marcus stared at her for a long moment before replying, “I am leaving. I’ve broken up with your daughter. If you could move her out of the way.”

Morgan’s face lit up with delight. She looked genuinely surprised to see him leaving so confidently, then burst into laughter.

“So this parasite is finally leaving? Good. The good-for-nothing finally realized he is not a match for my daughter. I prayed for this day.”

Jessica frowned and made a half-hearted attempt to stop her. “Mom, don’t talk like that. He’s just overreacting. He’ll come to his senses soon.”

Morgan ignored her. Her voice turned sharper.

“He was never worthy of you in the first place. A filthy beggar with no roots. A trash orphan clinging to your wealth like a mangy dog, sucking you dry. Let him go.”

She snorted. “You are a multimillionaire CEO now. There are plenty of real men lining up for you. Men with money. Men with status. Not this useless thing.”

A mocking smile crossed Marcus' face. Back then, when he had handed over the only one hundred thousand dollars he had to help Jessica start her business, Morgan had treated him like her own son. She had even helped him wash clothes.

Now that Jessica was rich, everything had changed. Well, that’s people for you.

Marcus fired back, “Useless? Remember this. Jessica even has a company because of the money I gave her back then. I helped her build it.”

Morgan let out a sharp laugh. “Helped? With what? Your pity money? Don’t flatter yourself. If she succeeded, it was because of her talent, not you. And you have already sucked more than that out of us.”

Unwilling to waste another word on them, Marcus slung his backpack over his shoulder and walked out.

Jessica was furious to see him actually leaving. “Marcus! If you leave, don’t ever come back! Even if you kneel and apologize, I won’t take you back!”

Marcus did not look back even once.

“Let him go, Jessica!” Morgan snapped. “Why are you humiliating yourself over him? Did he cast some spell on you?”

Jessica’s eyes turned red.

Seeing her reaction, Travis lowered his voice and said, “Don’t worry. Marcus has no money on him. He’ll come back soon—unless he stole something from the house.”

At Travis’s words, Morgan’s expression changed instantly.

“That’s right!” she shouted. “I need to check carefully and see if anything is missing!”

Jessica looked at her helplessly. “Marcus can be many things, but not a thief. He would never do that, Mom. Never.”

Morgan ignored her and went to the safe.

She opened it.

Suddenly, she let out a piercing scream.

“Whaaaaa!”

“The ruby necklace you bought last month—the one worth five hundred thousand dollars—is gone!” she cried out.