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

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 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

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

wasn’t fishing for pity, but

did was look

that I was going to pay him back, he should be more than willing to let me

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

I felt a void in me after pouring

glance,

gave out a loud thump after he walked out

He left.

and not feel sorry for my dishonesty. I could finally work

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

that I thought that I probably

must have gone haywire in

should be enmity. How was

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

Michael at the entrance. After what happened last night, I felt awkward, and thus, hurried

a brief sidelong glance, and walked

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

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

or Dad needed more money for his medical treatment.

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