Chapter 2 Driven Crazy!

Shelton was so familiar with the voice. Immediately, he turned around and saw Vera standing in the rain.

She was soaked to the bone. At this moment, she was breathing heavily with her hands on her knees. Her white shirt was wet and clinging to her chest.

She was in a mess!

Seeing her like this, Shelton was sad and immediately rushed to her like he would give up everything for her.

"Vera, what are you doing here?"

Clap!

He was slapped hard.

"Are you a man? I work so hard for our family, but you doubt me. How can you do this to me?"

Vera's eyes were red, and her lips were trembling with anger.

Shelton covered his face and looked at Vera's angry face. He couldn't help but smile.

He knew he had a home again and that she was here to take him home.

"I'll deal with you later!"

Vera glared at Shelton and walked quickly toward the men in suits. She shuddered and turned instantly pale when she saw the Rolls Royce with the rare license plate from New York.

Jesus!

Shelton is really crazy! How dare he hit the bodyguards of the big shot from New York? Wasn't he afraid of being killed?

"I'm sorry. My husband is out of his mind. I apologize on his behalf. Please forgive him."

Vera bowed to Larry.

"It's okay." Larry smiled and waved his hand. "It's normal for young people to be irritable, but miss, can you please stop hitting your husband?"

"Huh?"

Vera was stunned!

Shelton hit this big shot's bodyguards, but he wasn't mad and even told me not to hit him.

God. He's so nice!

"I'm so sorry."

Vera bowed her head in shame.

"It's okay. Go home with your husband. Talk to him nicely and don't hit him again."

Larry had his men give Vera an umbrella and then the three cars drove away.

Phew!

Vera breathed a sigh of relief, walked up to Shelton with the umbrella, and glared at him unhappily. "Look how open-minded the big shot from New York is. You got in his way and hit his bodyguards, but he forgave you. Otherwise, you would have been beaten and hospitalized."

"Well... I... I didn't do it on purpose."

Shelton didn't know what to say. He couldn't say that the old man was the Reed family's butler and that he'd hit them because they'd asked him to go back.

"Humph!"

Vera snorted. "What are you waiting for? Take the umbrella and come with me to Hilton Hotel to get the car!"

Shelton nodded, took the umbrella from her, and left under the puzzled gaze of the passersby.

...

"Did you think I cuckolded you?"

They took a shower and dried their clothes at the hotel. On the way back, Vera asked this question with an expressionless face.

"I thought so the moment I opened the door and saw you, but I soon dismissed it. I'm sure you're not that kind of person."

Shelton drove intently and answered calmly. They had been together for three years. He knew Vera well.

"Then why did you say that?"

"I want you to be happy. I don't want you to be ridiculed again. It's so unfair to you."

"Then you should take action to shut them up instead of giving up on yourself. I'll only look down on you."

Vera had hated Shelton for three years and even dreamed of divorcing him. If Shelton hadn't said those words, she might never have known that she was so unwilling to separate from him when he did leave her.

Even if she kept a dog for three years, she would not want to part with it, not to mention Shelton was a person.

So she braved the pouring rain to find him.

"Give me some time and I will change for you."

Shelton looked determined.

He was so weak because his arms and legs had been broken and he had been crippled.

After three years, he had fully recovered and could fight. He could make money as an instructor at a judo gym.

"Focus on driving."

Vera said helplessly.

Shelton had been a loser for three years. She had no hope for him.

...

When Vera and Shelton arrived home, they saw many of the Nilson family sitting in the living room, including Old Mr. Nilson.

"Vera, we've been waiting for you. You're finally back."

Shelton's mother-in-law, Jessie Kaye, smiled as she approached Vera with the three divorce papers and said, "Sign them. I'll go with you tomorrow to do the paperwork. It's a good thing this loser won't take a penny."

"Mom, I don't want to be a divorced woman." Vera pursed her lips.

"Stupid girl!"

Jessie's face instantly darkened. "Your grandpa and two uncles are all for your divorce. You haven't slept with this loser. You can marry into a rich family. Mr. Black doesn't mind you being divorced."

"Mom!"

Vera looked helpless and was about to say something when a young man stepped out.

"Vera, you must get a divorce. Nilson Group is going bankrupt under your management. You must marry Mr. Black, or Nilson Group will go bankrupt and you will have to support my family, Uncle Aidan's family, and Grandpa!"

He was Weldon Nilson, Vera's oldest uncle's son.

"Bullshit!"

Vera was furious.

"Bullshit?"

Weldon sneered. "You bought 100,000 tons of steel, didn't you? The price per ton is now 4 dollars less than when you bought it. We even have to pay to put half the steel in another warehouse."

"Actually, it doesn't matter. No one makes money all the time."

"But the point is that it's time to pay back the bank loan but you don't have the money."

"We owe those steel mills more than 10 million dollars. They are forcing us every day and even sending people to our company. If we don't pay them back, they'll buy the steel at 80 percent of the market price. The bank will just auction off our warehouse."

"You started everything, didn't you? You're incompetent. If I were president, none of this would have happened!"

"You..."

Vera was furious and didn't know what to say.

At this point, Shelton finally said, "Vera has helped the company make a lot of money in the past two years as the president and your family has taken a lot of it. Now the company is in crisis and you are blaming her. Are you kidding me?"

Weldon was furious. "Who the hell are you? Who are you to lecture me, you piece of shit?"

"You're just a department manager. Who are you to accuse the president?" Shelton asked rhetorically.

"I'm part of the company. Of course, I have the right!" Weldon was furious. "If I were the president, I wouldn't have gotten the company to this point. You have no right to question my competence!"

"I'm a department manager, but I get paid more than you! Fuck you, delivery guy!"

Shelton wasn't mad and continued, "If you're so good, why didn't Old Mr. Nilson make you the president instead of Vera?"

"Grandpa is blind! He doesn't know how capable I am or he wouldn't have made Vera the president. She doesn't deserve to be even a department manager. She doesn't deserve to be the president!"

"Then ask Old Mr. Nilson if he agrees with you," Shelton said with a smile.

Weldon froze.

Damn it!

His heart sank and he quickly turned his head to see Old Mr. Nilson in the main seat staring at him with an angry face and sharp eyes.

His parents both freaked out and stared at him.

"Grandpa, I..."

"Get down on your knees!"

Old Mr. Nilson shouted.

Flop!

Weldon got down on his knees and shouted in panic, "Grandpa, don't be mad. I didn't mean it. Shelton provoked me on purpose or I wouldn't have said that!"