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.

 

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

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,

with to cut ties with him. If

for pity, but just

look at me blankly,

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

his were affixed to mine. The things I’d said all came from my heart, and I

relieved, I felt a void in me after pouring my heart

glance, turned around,

when the door gave out a loud thump after

He left. I supposed

open heart and not feel sorry

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

couldn’t believe that I thought that I probably had feelings

must have gone haywire in

supposed to have towards this man should be enmity. How was it possible that I was falling for him? I’d never fall for

looked at me right before he left

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

responded similarly, giving me a brief sidelong glance, and walked straight into

time we ran into each other, but at least our affair had

day when I was buzzing at work, my phone

or Dad needed more money for his medical treatment. Tensing

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