My Husband Donated Our Emergency Savings

“Max! What are you doing?”I charged forward like a madwoman and grabbed the man that my husband, Mas, addressed as “John.”I reached out to snatch that stack of cash from his hand.Max, however, seized my wrist firmly.“Have you lost your mind? Quit acting crazy in public!”I stumbled and fell hard to the floor.Max straightened his suit tie and did not even glance at me.The family members of other patients nearby all turned to stare.Noticing the crowd’s attention, Max said loudly, “Excuse me, everyone! My wife doesn’t know any better. She’s never been out in the real world. “John’s mother is in the ER right now. Without these thirty thousand dollars, she’s done for.“You have to have a sense of decency. I’m a successful business owner, for crying out loud. How could I just stand by and let someone die?”John wiped his tears and said, “Mr. Grove, you’re a lifesaver! My whole family thanks you. I swear, I’ll pay you back first thing tomorrow morning!”John stuffed the ca

“I already sent the twenty thousand dollars to John.”My mind went blank as I looked at him.“W-What did you say?”“John texted me on WhatsApp and said that his mother’s surgery and the follow-up care are still short by twenty thousand dollars,” Max said while holding out his palms as if it were the most natural thing.“Look, I said I’d help him. I don’t do things halfway. I go all the way.“I’ve got an image to keep, so I just covered the rest for him. No way I’m letting him look desperate and cheap running around asking people for money. That’d reflect badly on me.”My vision almost went dark as I looked at him. Oswald sent the money to me to save my mother’s life. How could he just hand it all over to a stranger just to feed his own ridiculous vanity?I had to get it back!I stood up and dashed frantically toward the stairwell. Max grabbed my hair from behind and pinned me down onto a bench in the hallway.“Stay put! I’m not having you humiliate me out there!”He then

Max wasted no time. Within just a couple of days, he waved a thick stack of photocopied loan contracts in my face.He boasted smugly, “See that? That’s called clout! All I need to do is say the word, and ten thousand dollars hits my account just like that!I looked at the documents and kept my head down in silence.Behind his back, I had already asked someone to check Max’s bank statements.Over the years, just to show off, he had given over a hundred thousand dollars of my hard-earned money to his so-called friends just to look good. None of them ever paid him back.Even more ridiculous was what I found when I went through his phone’s transfer records.He never used the ten-thousand-dollar loan to pay off the remaining balance for the cemetery plot.Instead, he transferred it immediately to that scammer John from the hospital.In their chat history, John’s messages were full of “Mr. Grove” this and “Mr. Grove” that, selling him some overseas deal that supposedly paid back 300%

All relatives turned to look at Max.“Uh… I left the house in a hurry, and I don’t have any other bank cards with me. Could someone lend me two thousand dollars just to get through this? I promise I’ll return it tomorrow.”Those who had been acting friendly with him instantly turned away.“Oh, Max, what terrible timing! My wife just texted. I left the gas on at home. I need to leave,” said one of the men. He then bolted.The others quickly made up their own excuses to leave.“Oh, no! I’m having a stomachache. I need to go to the restroom.”“I think my car was just towed!”In less than a minute, the so-called friends all scampered.Some even turned back at the door to shout mockingly.“This guy can’t even cover a nine-thousand-dollar bill, and he’s out here playing billionaire? Talk about being all bark and no bite!”The relatives began to catch on, and the murmurs grew louder.“So he’s all talk after all? I knew he couldn’t have that kind of money!”“What a joke! All that t

The flyers showed the police notice on John’s fraud case, as well as screenshots from surveillance footage of loan sharks hounding him for debts.I grabbed a megaphone and shouted at the crowd of onlookers.“Everyone, take a good look! This cripple on the ground is named Max!“My mother needed surgery to survive, but he gave away every penny of her life-saving money just to play rich in front of a scammer!“After he got my mother killed, he went and borrowed from loan sharks to keep up his act. Now that his legs are broken, he has the nerve to come back and bleed me dry!”The crowd instantly erupted into an uproar.Several elderly women in the audience were shaking in rage. They started throwing stones at Max. He finally broke down. He gave up his pride and started slapping himself wildly while begging for forgiveness.“Honey, I’m sorry. I’m truly sorry!“Please, just give me another chance. We can get back together. I’ll treat you right for the rest of my life!”I walked