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.

 

couldn’t even live my life the way it was. Was all this misery

can you 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

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

fishing for pity,

was look at me blankly,

was going to pay him back, he should be more than

I’d said all came from my heart,

feeling relieved, I felt a void in

glance, turned

got back to my senses when the door gave out a loud thump

was it. He left.

heart and

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

freakin’ way! I couldn’t believe that I thought that I probably

must have gone

this man should be enmity. How was it possible that I

at me right before he left kept appearing in my head, and I

the entrance. After

brief sidelong glance, and walked straight into his

awkward every time we ran into each other, but at

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

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

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