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.

money, and why would they be so forceful with

did your family move to now? I was told yesterday that you had just been released, so I went to

and there was no one there! I

didn’t think you’d come looking for us yesterday. My plan was to return the money

saw that Severin seemed 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, so my father wanted me to go to your home and ask your family to return what you borrowed. But I knew that your

fifty bucks with them at the time. They gave it to you, but then you threw the money onto

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 much, so I didn’t tell them that I took a loan with a high interest rate from a private

do you still owe them?” Severin