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.

 

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

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 ways to

up with to cut ties with him. If I didn’t owe him anything,

fishing for

all he did was look at

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

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

I felt a void in me after pouring my

another glance, turned around, and

senses when the door gave out a loud

was it. He left. I supposed

was the case, I’d be able to face Yuval with an open heart and not feel sorry for my

smile on my face, yet I felt a tinge of

freakin’ way! I couldn’t believe that I thought that I probably had feelings for

must have gone

How was it possible that I was falling for him? I’d never

got me tossing and turning. The way he looked at me right before he left kept appearing in my head, and I barely slept a

bumped into Michael at the entrance.

responded similarly, giving me a brief sidelong glance, and walked straight

strangers. It was still awkward every time we ran into

day when I was buzzing at work, my phone rang. The word “Mom” on the

she called, it was either about my relationship or Dad needed more money for his medical treatment. Tensing up became a reflex to calls from

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