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.

 

this “relationship,” I couldn’t even live my life the way it was.

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

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

fishing for

look at me

that I was going to pay him back, he should

mine. The things I’d said all came from my heart, and I was just hoping that he could see the pain and hardship

a void in me after

me another glance, turned around,

my senses when the door gave out a loud thump after he walked out

left. I supposed we

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

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

I thought

have gone haywire

be enmity. How was

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

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

a brief sidelong glance, and walked straight into his

ran into each other, but at least our affair had come

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

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

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