The four-figure price on the receipt had me almost passing out. Precisely speaking, it was five thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine.

Oh my God, it’s just a dress, yet it actually cost nearly six thousand? Is it inlaid with gold or what?

My pay was only seven or eight thousand a month, so my heart clenched at the thought of spending six thousand on a dress.

I looked at Michael in confliction. It wasn’t that I couldn’t afford to buy the dress, but I was really reluctant to spend close to a month’s salary on a dress.

“I didn’t know this dress was actually that expensive…” I muttered lowly as I eyed him sheepishly.

 

Upon glimpsing the smugness in his eyes, I was gripped by the urge to slap myself hard. Argh! Why did I insist on paying him back? I’m simply making trouble for myself!

“Didn’t you say you were going to pay me back for the dress? Well, you can do so now.”

Michael stared at me, his voice brimming with provocation.

 

“Um… can I pay you back in a few days? I don’t have that much money right now.”

It’s a king’s ransom of six thousand! How am I going to get so much money to pay him back now? If it weren’t for the fact that I’ve got no clothes to wear, I’d simply whip it off immediately and return it to him. Then, I wouldn’t have to spend six thousand on a dress!

 

“Sure.”

drop in the bucket to him since the amount of money he made in a day was

I pay

I had wired my pay back home for my father to buy supplements. Every time I was paid, the money was only sufficient for me

pay me in installments? How

an eyebrow, Michael regarded me in astonishment

my money home, so I don’t have any extra money to pay you back. Can I pay you five hundred

forehead, Michael looked at

money. Just use the money to buy groceries. In the future, I’ll go and have dinner often

is he so adamant about having me cook when he has

if he asks me to pay him back immediately were I to

relented with a nod without

triumph in his eyes.

myself that I was reading too much into things. Why would a man like him trick me? Besides, it won’t

parked the car in the underground parking, I hastily alighted when no one was there, afraid that

the past, he had warned me more than once that no one was to know about our relationship. For that reason, I had to be on guard every time I was

about our relationship, nor did I. After all, people would definitely look down

I swiftly straightened the documents on my table. Having taken the day off yesterday,

started flipping through

stir since he rarely visited the advertisement

Millie’s eyes when she

just a moment after you. Don’t tell me the two of

on my table, staring at me in

at her in panic even as I inwardly wondered whether she had

He’s a bigshot, so it’s impossible that I’m that close with him…” I blurted

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