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

have to bear?” I sighed, and my tough shell cracked. “At the end of the day, I’m just a woman, and I need someone to lean on. My Dad is sick. He needs a sum of money every month for his treatment. Carrying the weight of the whole family on my shoulders is killing me already. Let me go, please, I beg you. I’ll find

could come up with to cut ties with him. If I didn’t owe him

for pity, but just

all he did was look at me blankly, somewhat

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

I’d said all

of feeling relieved, I felt a void in me

gave me another glance, turned around,

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

left. I supposed we

an open heart and not

yet I felt a tinge of sadness. Was

I thought that I probably had feelings

have gone haywire in

supposed to have towards this man should be enmity. How was it

tossing and turning. The way he looked at me right before he left kept appearing

the entrance. After what happened last night, I felt awkward,

a brief sidelong glance, and walked straight

days, we were like strangers. It was still awkward every time we ran into each

work, my phone rang. The word

relationship or Dad needed more money for his medical treatment. Tensing up became a

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