Life After Prison

Chapter 44

“Y-yes, sir!” Bree was so frightened that her voice was trembling slightly. “Who in world is this guy?” she wondered. ‘He didn’t even think twice before hitting Mister Edward.”

Diane tried on several garments again, all of which looked exceptionally good on her.

“I’ll take them all!” Severin smiled in satisfaction. He turned to Bree and said, “Could you let me know how much it all costs?”

“You’re taking…all… of them?” Bree was taken aback. The most expensive set that they tried on cost upward of about ten thousand, and the cheaper ones were worth a thousand or so. In total there were seven or eight garments, and their price would almost certainly come to a total of well over forty thousand.

“That I am. Did I not make myself clear?” Severin smiled faintly.

“Isn’t it a little excessive?” Diane found his gesture to be a little sweet because she never expected Severin to be so willing to spend money on her. Still, those five difficult years of her life made her feel that buying all those clothes was a bit too over the top.

“That’s what you call spending an arm and leg, right?” Severin remarked with a smile.

thousand dollars!” Bree came back and said to Severin after she went to one side to do some

them nicely for me!” Severin smiled and carried his

standing not far away, was completely dumbfounded. She wondered if she was in some sort of weird dream where a villager wearing ill- fitting clothes and a woven bag could afford to buy clothes worth 40,000

being able to sell one or two garments worth less than a thousand was already an achievement. Meanwhile, dresses worth several thousand

all of them

fork out that sum?” The other two senior employees were just as surprised. It was

first time handling such a big order, she was a little nervous and unconsciously uttered the line, “Would that be cash or card,

one would pay such

Severin smiled

of which were tied up in bundles of one thousand. He counted forty-one stacks and tossed them on the counter. “That’s

was taken aback, for she had never imagined that she would

the shopping bag