Life After Prison

Chapter 163

“You’re going to return it to us? Pfft. Can you even afford it? Do you think it’s just the eight thousand dollars? You owe our family much more than that?” Queenie had a resentful look in her

eyes.

Severin’s heart was in turmoil. He never imagined that his cousin, who had such a good

relationship with him back then, would look at him with that kind of gaze. He knew that things were not as simple as they appeared to be, and he could only wonder what could have happened to her family.

all that money, and why would they be so forceful with

this: where did your family move to now? I was told yesterday that you had just

moved away and there was no one there! I couldn’t get through to

come looking for us yesterday. My plan was to return the money to you. sometime tomorrow or the day after tomorrow.” He then paused and looked

to be telling the truth, so he sighed and said, “I’d rather we not talk about it, but it has to do with my mother’s operation some time ago. Our family didn’t have enough money, and we were short of another eight thousand,

for a while, and then said, “And you went there anyway, but my parents had less than fifty bucks with them at the time.

mother many times because of how often she lent you money. I felt helpless when I couldn’t do anything for my mother when she was lying on the hospital bed, and out of desperation, I got to know those guys after one of my friends introduced us. I borrowed the eight thousand from them to help my mother pay for her surgery. “After a brief pause, she continued, “I was afraid that my parents would worry too

do you still owe them?” Severin asked.