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.

 

even live my life the way it was. Was all this misery worth

on. My Dad is sick. He needs a sum of money every month

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

wasn’t fishing for

look at me blankly, somewhat

I was going to pay him

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

relieved, I felt a void in me after

glance,

back to my senses when the door gave

He left. I supposed we were

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

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

I thought that I probably had

have gone haywire in my

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

he looked at me right before

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

sidelong glance,

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

work, my phone rang. The word “Mom” on the

it was either about my relationship or Dad needed more money for his medical treatment. Tensing up became a reflex

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