I’m Someone Else

The burly man, Nate Poole, glared at her and fumed, “Chloe Hahn, don’t act like I haven’t shown you any mercy. When we signed the loan contract, it was clearly stated that you need to pay up by the fifteenth of this month. Well, it’s the end of the month now! How can you ask for a few more days? Are you trying to skip out on the loan?”

“No, of course not, Mr. Poole. I really don’t have any money.”

“No money, huh? Hasn’t Twilight Bar given out this month’s paychecks? Where’s yours?”

“I-I used the money to pay for my father’s hospital fees!”

“F*cking hell!” Nate cursed. “So, you have the money to pay for medical treatments for that d*mn father of yours, but no money to pay me back, huh? Do you think I’m running a charity?”

“Nate, why are you wasting your breath on her? Let’s just go around the house and take whatever’s valuable,” one of Nate’s lackeys suggested.

Nate paused. His eyes flicked across the shabby room, and his lips twitched.

Smack!

“Ouch!” The man who had spoken rubbed his head and asked resentfully, “Why did you hit me, Nate?”

“So what if I did? Bashing you up won’t make up for the grief you caused me. Why don’t you take a f*cking look around? Does it look like there’s anything valuable in here? Do you know how much she owes me? 50 thousand! Forget about the things in here. Even the selling price of this house won’t be enough to cover the debt!”

“U-Um, Mr. Poole…” Chloe spoke up weakly. “I’m renting this house… so I can’t sell it…”

“F*cking hell!” Nate felt as if he was going to get an aneurysm. He was so pissed off that he nearly choked up blood. Is it your life’s mission to make me mad, little girl?

Chloe seemed to have realized that it was poor timing for her to say something like that, so she took a step back and eyed Nate in fear.

All of a sudden, Nate’s eyes lit up. “Look at how pretty this chick is. Why am I worried about not getting my money back?”

“Hehe!”

started leering after hearing

knew what Nate meant. They

you’ll start taking clients. I’m sure that with these looks of yours, you’ll raise all the money you need to pay

“No! Mr. Poole, I—”

wanted me to give you a few more days, right? Well, I won’t be too hard on you. Let’s have some fun, and I’ll give you a

don’t want

grateful when I’m being nice to you!” Nate flew into a rage and slapped her hard on

the forceful slap. The corner of

by the hair. “You chose the hard way yourself. You’re working at a bar, so why bother pretending to be a class act? You should be thanking your lucky stars that you get to serve

enough to cover my father’s medical fees!

“Oh, stop acting tough!”

50 thousand back if you

of women in Irieson would kill at the chance of getting with Nate,

cackling and kicking up a

Hear that? Come. Let’s have some

having his way with this innocent

from him, but she was a weak young woman who didn’t know how to fight. How could she possibly stand a chance against Nate, who was burly and muscular? All her

the end, she closed her eyes in despair

treating me like this?! What did

injustice in her life, she heard

Crash!

of air that seemed to have brought dust and splintered wood with it, and the forceful grip that

and saw the man that

pale complexion made him look like someone who had dispirited

one hand while the other was holding onto a chair that only had one

who was clutching his forehead with both hands. Blood trickled between his

He stared dumbly at Thomas as he hadn’t figured out what

men were all staring at