Too Late to Hold Me Back novel Chapter 1186

"Who says I've met a bitter end? I didn't come back because I couldn't survive. My boy is grown up now, and he wanted to find you."

Chloe sobbed as she spoke. However, her voice clearly lacked conviction.

"Keep lying," Jordan scoffed. "I knew five years ago that some man swindled you out of your money. Let me guess—you didn't come to me back then because you were too ashamed.

Are you really going to use the kid as an excuse?"

Jordan then shifted his piercing gaze to the young man. "And you. Don't call me your father. The moment you called me a vulgar brute over a decade ago and refused to leave with me, you stopped being my son."

Jordan pointed a stern finger at the young man.

"Didn't you say your fake foreign dad was better? You used to call him 'Dad' so affectionately. Why aren't you looking for him now? Did he toss you aside?"

The young man clenched his jaw, looking furious and humiliated, but he kept his mouth shut.

"Jordan, he was just a child! He was only ten back then. How can you hold a grudge against a ten-year-old?"

Chloe couldn't help but cry out.

"Just a child? A man's character is set by age seven. With a mother like you, even a good seed would grow into poison. And you..."

Jordan pointed at Chloe. "Do you have the right to call me by my first name? Say it one more time, and I'll make you regret it."

Chloe's tears fell even harder. "Mr... Ellis, he is your only son."

This was Chloe Abbot's trump card. She dared to return to the country solely because she knew her boy was Jordan's only biological child.

If this plan failed, her trip would have been a massive waste of time and money. Furthermore, they didn't even have legal residency in the country, and their funds were running dangerously low.

"So what? In the Ellis family lineage, blood means nothing. We value capability and character.

"Let me tell you a secret. Half of my current wealth was earned with her help.

My other apprentice is just as brilliant. They built themselves from the ground up, reaching the absolute pinnacle on their own merit.

And then there's you..."

Jordan looked the young man up and down. "You're in your twenties, right? Roughly the same age as my eldest apprentice, yet you can't even hold down a life for yourself.

How could a failure like you ever shoulder the immense weight of my intelligence network?"

The young man hung his head, looking thoroughly defeated.

Chloe, however, was furious. "They aren't your real children! No matter how good they are, they belong to someone else. They're only sticking around for your money!"

"For my money? Bullshit! My apprentices command the business world with a snap of their fingers. They are unmatched elites. You think they care about my pocket change?