He was taken aback by my deriding remark as I was always soft-spoken and composed in front of him.

“Are you calling me a disgrace in your life? I dare you to repeat yourself!”

 

His grip got even tighter than before, and my wrists hurt so badly that I almost shrieked. Regardless, I wasn’t going to back down anymore. No matter how weak he thought I might be, I had my dignity to defend.

He assumed that I was this gold-digger who wanted all the fortune and fame. If I gave in, it simply meant that I agreed to all his assumptions.

“It’s gonna be the same, Michael Shaw. You’re the utmost disgrace in my life!”

 

Tonight, he’d put me on the warpath. Even a weakling had its limits, and this time he’d gone too far!

As soon as I spoke, his chest pumped up and down in fury.

“Anna, bear in mind that you started it. Have you forgotten that you seduced me for two hundred thousand?”

 

I froze instantly; he was right. It was me who had seduced him and climbed onto his bed for Dad’s operation money. I needed it by hook or by crook, but little did I know that my cynical plan would lead to this.

Only now did I realize that my decision then was a terrible mistake. I should’ve looked for other means, sold my organs, anything but seeking help from the devil.

 

started this “relationship,” I couldn’t even live my life the way it was. Was all this misery worth that

just a woman, and I need someone to lean on. My Dad is sick. He needs a sum of money

idea I could come up with to cut ties with him. If I didn’t owe him anything, I wouldn’t have

wasn’t fishing for pity,

look at me blankly, somewhat

told him that I was going to pay him back, he should be more than willing to let me go…

silent and let go of my hand. Those dark eyes of his were affixed to mine. The things I’d said all came from my

feeling relieved, I felt a void in me after pouring

another glance, turned

only got back to my senses when the door gave out a loud thump after he walked out of the

it. He left. I supposed we were

with an open heart and not feel sorry for my dishonesty. I could finally work on

yet I felt a tinge

believe that I

must have gone

be enmity. How was it possible that I was falling for him? I’d never fall

at me right before he left kept appearing in my head, and

day at the company, I bumped into Michael at the entrance. After what happened

brief sidelong glance, and walked

ran into each other, but

at work, my phone rang. The word “Mom”

needed more money for his medical treatment. Tensing

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