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.

you owe all that money, and why would they

right? Then let me ask you this: where did your family move to now? I was told yesterday that you had just been released, so I went to your house to look for you. Imagine my surprise when I found

no one there! I couldn’t get through to your

sorry, Queenie. My parents changed their numbers after I bought them new cell phones, and we didn’t manage to inform you yet. I didn’t think you’d 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 earnestly at Queenie before asking, “What’s the deal with those guys

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, so my father wanted

thought for a while, and then said, “And you went there anyway, but my parents had less than fifty bucks with them at the time. They gave it to you, but then you threw the money onto the ground and

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

do you still owe them?”