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.

 

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

Do you know how much pressure I 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

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

for pity,

was look at me blankly,

him that I was going

I’d said all came from my heart,

a void in

glance, turned around, and

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

was it. He left. I supposed we were

to face Yuval with an open heart and not feel

of it put a smile on my face, yet

that I thought that I probably had feelings

must have gone haywire

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

at me right before

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

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

days, we were like strangers. It was still awkward every time we ran into each other, but at least our affair had come

day when I was buzzing at work, my phone rang. The

about my relationship or Dad needed more money for his medical treatment. Tensing up became a reflex to calls

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