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.

 

“relationship,” I couldn’t even live my life the way it

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

was the only idea I could come up with to cut ties with him. If I didn’t owe him anything, I wouldn’t

fishing for pity, but just

did was look at

lashing his wrath at me soon after that. Since I told him that I was going to pay him back, he should be more

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 that I

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

another glance,

to my senses when the door gave out a loud

He left.

open heart and not feel sorry for my dishonesty. I could finally work on

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

believe that I thought

must have gone

towards this man should be enmity. How was it

lay on my bed, my mixed emotions got me tossing and turning. The way he looked at me right before he left kept appearing in my head, and

I bumped into Michael at the entrance. After what happened last night, I felt awkward, and thus,

sidelong glance, and walked straight into his

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

phone

was either about my relationship or Dad needed more

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