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.

 

my life the way it was. Was all this

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

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

wasn’t fishing for pity, but just

did was look

 Since I told him that I was going to pay him back, he

said all came from my heart, and I was just hoping that he could see the pain and hardship that I

felt a void in me

glance, turned around,

gave out a loud thump

left. I supposed

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

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

way! I couldn’t believe that I thought

gone haywire in my

feeling I was supposed to have towards this man should be enmity. How was it possible that I was falling for him?

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 wink

I bumped into Michael at the entrance. After what happened last night, I felt awkward, and

a brief sidelong glance, and walked

ran into each other, but at least our affair had come to an end, and that

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

needed more money for

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