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.

 

even live my life the way it was. Was all this misery worth that two hundred

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.

moment, settling the bill was the only idea I could come up with to cut ties with him. If I didn’t owe him anything, I wouldn’t have to continue this shameful

for pity, but

he did was look at

at me soon after that. Since I told him that I was going to pay him back, he should be

I’d said all came from my heart, and I was just hoping that he could

I felt a void in

gave me another glance, turned around,

my senses when the door gave out a

was it. He left. I supposed

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

thought of it put a smile on my face, yet I felt a tinge of sadness.

I thought that I probably had

must have gone haywire in

only feeling I was supposed to have towards this man should be enmity. How was it possible that I was falling for him? I’d never fall

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

bumped into Michael at the entrance. After what happened last

sidelong glance, and walked straight

the next few days, we were like strangers. It was still awkward every time we ran into each other, but at

was buzzing at work, my phone rang. The word

more money for his medical treatment. Tensing up became a reflex to

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