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.

 

the way it was. Was all this

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

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 to continue this shameful

fishing for

he did was look at me blankly,

soon after that. Since I told him that I was going to pay him back, he should be more than willing to let

were affixed to mine. The things I’d said

of feeling relieved, I felt a void in me after pouring my

gave me another glance, turned around, and

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

He left.

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

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

 I couldn’t believe that I thought that I probably

must have gone

How was it possible that I was falling

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

next day at the company, I bumped into Michael at the entrance. After

similarly, giving me a brief sidelong glance,

awkward every time we ran into each other, but at least our affair had come to

phone rang.

my relationship or Dad needed more money for his medical treatment.

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