With a tap on her phone, Charlotte transferred a lump sum to his account. To give herself additional peace of mind, she dialed his number. “I’ve transferred one hundred and seven thousand in total. Please check if you have received it.”

“Okay,” the familiar voice answered plainly.

“Goodbye!”

Within a second after hanging up, she erased his number from her contact list.

She couldn’t help but feel irritated. What’s with that cold attitude? Wasn’t he so gentle and passionate just a while back at the hotel? Was it all a pretense?

Where did all his manners disappear to? Not even a “thank you” after she returned his money!

Wretched gigolo!

Apart from that, she stared blankly at the remaining balance flashing on her screen. There was only seven hundred left, it wouldn’t even be enough to buy milk for the kids…

It hasn’t even been a month yet since she started on her current job. She was at a loss on how to manage until payday.

hoping to find something valuable that she could possibly sell or pawn off for

 

the ruby necklace. Zachary Nacht had gotten

use right now although it’s worth a hundred million.

no other way? She rested a palm on her head and

tightly woven in a deep furrow when her phone suddenly rang again. Puzzled at the unknown number, she hesitated briefly

Lily. Are you okay?” a high-pitched

her a while before she recalled that name. Lily was the

HR department. I heard that you took emergency

“I’m fine, thank you.”

couldn’t trust anyone enough to let her guard down. Until now, she was still in the dark as to why Yolanda had ambushed her like that. She

boyfriend never came back either after he left to search for you,” Lily responded. “Everyone thought you lot were trying to escape from the bill, but Sultry Night’s manager told us that your boyfriend

just drank too much,” Charlotte avoided the question. “I’m sorry

hasn’t come into the office today as well. The company had just announced that she was involved in some

been Wesley’s partner in crime! No wonder things seemed so fishy. The way

thought she must’ve been imagining, but at Lily’s explanation, she was

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