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 all this misery worth that

show me some mercy? I’m beat. 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 month for his treatment. Carrying the weight of the whole family on my shoulders is killing me already. Let me

come up with to cut ties with him. If I

for pity, but just

did was look

I was going to pay

Those dark eyes of his were affixed to mine. The things I’d said all came from my heart, and I was just hoping that he could see the pain and hardship

of feeling relieved, I felt a void in

another glance, turned around, and

door gave out a loud thump after

it. He left. I supposed

and

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

way! I couldn’t believe that I thought

must have gone haywire

enmity. How

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

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

me a brief sidelong glance, and walked straight

ran into each other, but

day when I was buzzing at work, my phone

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

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