Chapter 173

After all, Wendy was still in jail, and with Jessica in such a bad situation, there was no way she'd give him any money. His only hope was Kathryn.

If he knew this would happen, he wouldn't have spent so much in the past. Maxwell didn't know what he could do without any savings.

Kathryn scoffed, "What are you supposed to do? What does that have to do with me?"

"Wait, Kathryn! You're my sister! You can't do this to me!" Maxwell was even more desperate now. If she didn't give him anything, he would probably starve in Harborlean.

Kathryn wanted to laugh when he called her his sister. "You think of me as your sister?"

"Think of you? You are my sister," Maxwell hastily said.

"That's a shame. I never thought of you as my brother."

"Hold on, Kathryn …"

Kathryn hung up. The mention of her being his sister made her laugh. Kathryn had never considered Wendy her mother, so Maxwell wasn't really like a brother to her.

After she hung up, Maxwell called her again, but she ignored it this t