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.

 

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

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

with to cut ties

fishing for

all he did was look at

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

were affixed to mine. The things I’d said all came from my heart, and I was just

felt a void in

another glance, turned around,

when the door gave out a loud thump after he walked out of the

He left. I supposed we were

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

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

way! I couldn’t believe that I

gone haywire in my

man should be enmity. How was it possible that

at me right before he left kept appearing in

into Michael at the entrance. After

a brief sidelong glance, and walked straight

were like strangers. It was still awkward every time we ran into each other, but at least our affair had come to an end, and that

I was buzzing at work, my phone rang.

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

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