Mistaking the CEO for a Gigolo

The man shook his head in response.

She then continued, “Gillian Snow, the lead character in the novel, has been through what most divorced women would go through living with their parents. A phrase in the novel goes ‘a divorced woman living with her parents has no one to depend on.’ That was exactly how I felt.”

“Were your parents not good to you?”

“After my failed marriage, I tried to be more careful about choosing my next partner. I wanted to start again with another relationship, but I’ve never found a suitable one in the past two years after the divorce. My mother would get mad whenever the neighbors mention my failed marriage. Then, she’d ask me to hurry and get remarried soon. I was living in a house that belonged to my parents, so from time to time, my mother would remind me that they planned to move into the house soon. I knew she was trying to drive me out. I haven’t slept well for the past two years because I was sleeping under someone else’s roof. I didn’t have a home, and I have no one to depend on.”

Levant had no right to comment on the woman’s family matter, so instead, he inquired, “Have you not thought about getting your own house? Do you have a job?”

The woman nodded. “I do. When I was six, my mother shut me out of the house when I fought with my brother. I was so scared that she’d never let me in again, so I cried until the sky turned dark. In the end, my grandmother brought me back to her house. When I was sixteen, my mother sent me elsewhere to make money. I’ve known since I was sixteen that I had to depend on myself. I’ve supported myself over the years.”

Her tears started rolling down again when she recalled her painful past.

off my ex-husband’s debt to raise my children. I don’t earn a lot, and I have to pay for my children’s

before, but I do now. A woman needs to be financially capable and have her own home. Only then

the woman was done speaking, she looked at Levant and asked, “What do you think? Should

sized her up. “Even if you can’t afford to buy a house, you can always rent a

after my divorce, but my mother came over, and we

no longer go on talking. The past was a knife to

woman was suffering,

to Levant, but it was enough to change

hurt yourself if you have a

woman lifted her head and shot

through the harshest situations her life had to offer, she wondered if the stranger before her

You’ll lend me money?” she asked