Left at the Airport, Worth a Billion

For seven years Lucas Cross ran the household and paid for all of it. His wife's parents lived on his money and called him a leech to his face. The family booked a holiday abroad. They would not spend $890 on a ticket for him and left him standing in the airport, then handed his wife's childhood friend fifteen thousand for spending money. It was not an oversight. They had simply decided what he was worth. What none of them knew was that the man they had spent seven years stepping on runs the Zhang Group, which is worth a hundred billion. He filed for divorce that day. Without his money the household could not hold itself together for a month. The childhood friend they had been funding was a gambler who had been working them the entire time, which came out while they were still adjusting to being poor. Lucas's wife learned who her husband was from other people. She came to ask him to reconsider. He had stopped being reachable somewhere in the years she spent not looking at him.