“Anna Garcia, do you have to speak to me in such a sarcastic way?” I could sense that he was stifling his fury at the moment as he hissed at me.

“Mr. Shaw, it’s after office hour now. If there’s nothing urgent, I hope you don’t call me again and disrupt my private time. Thanks for your understanding!” Oblivious to Michael’s anger, I answered coldly.

 

I was reluctant to have anything to do with him. When snippets of how he put me in hot water in the office flashed across my mind, I was boiling with anger again.

“I know about your family matters,” Michael uttered slowly when I was about to hang up.

I stiffened momentarily before I lashed out at him, “Michael Shaw, are you investigating on me? I have nothing to do with you now. Why are you still doing that to me?”

 

I was enraged, thinking of how he tried to meddle with my family matters. We have nothing to do with each other anymore. Why is he still investigating my family conditions? What is he intending to do now?

“Huh! Investigate your family situations? Do you think that I’m so free and have nothing to do? Anna Garcia, don’t you think that you are thinking too highly of yourself?” he snorted.

“If you didn’t do that, how would you know about my family matters? Michael Shaw, please bear in mind that there is nothing between both of us now. Can you please set me free and stop interfering with my life?” I refuted.

 

were obtained via the investigations. It was as if my privacy was unveiled and exposed to others, causing me utter discomfort. To me, it was a privacy invasion when Michael

Garcia, don’t jump to conclusions without any evidence. It’s your mother! She gave

 

was out of my expectation that my mom would make the move

goodness! She seems to have no sense of shame and is willing to do anything for Steven! She doesn’t even know Michael in person. Just because Michael has given us one hundred thousand to settle our financial crisis before, she shamelessly called him to ask

had owed him a lot all this while. Now that my Mom asked for his

causing you trouble.

awkward to face Michael, I intended to hang up right away. It seemed he could sense that I was about to do so. He said in a commanding tone, “Anna Garcia, don’t hang up first. Listen

I was touched at that very moment. Even so, I came to my senses within seconds and rejected coldly, “Mr. Shaw, you don’t have to do that. You and I are merely boss and

was a bellow of rage from the man on the other end of the line. I

I blurted out the words and hung up hastily. His offer was simply irresistible to me. Thus, I

that it had finally come to an end, I

hanging up the phone, it took me a long time to cool myself down. It was undeniable that Michael’s words had

shameless. She seemed to have lost her mind as she was trying to save Steven by all means. How dare she contacted Michael to borrow money from him when she is clueless about his actual identity? Did she think of me before making the call? Has it ever occurred to her how I would face Michael

and I seemed to be linked with money. To make things worse, my mom called him impulsively to borrow money again. In his

disappointment, they gave me all sorts of excuses to not lend me money. No matter what, I could not blame them for

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