Eva was so shocked that she felt as if a bolt of lightning had flown out of the heavens and hit her squarely in the chest.

One million? They couldn’t afford so much money!

“You bastard! Did you gamble at the casino again?” Glenn had also heard these words. He came out of the room with a pipe in his hand. His face turned scarlet with fury. He landed two hard blows to Jeff’s head and said, “You bastard! How could I raise such a failure like you?”

Eva rushed to Jeff to protect him. “Why hit him so hard? We only have one son!”

Glenn clenched the pipe in his hand and said, “Well, now that he has landed himself in such serious debt, what are we going to do?”

Eva wiped her tears away and complained, “You like drinking and gambling yourself. You are no better than him!”

“The point is that we don’t have so much money now. You two might as well take my life to pay them!” Glenn was exasperated and his face darkened.

One million was indeed a huge sum of money for them.

Holding Eva desperately, Jeff said, “Mom, we can go to Lila! She definitely has the money!”

*******

Lila was busy playing games quite late that night, when she received a call from the hotel receptionist informing her that her parents and her brother were making a scene in the hotel lobby.

any thought or consideration, but in the end, she decided to go downstairs. She didn’t

she fell to

some money to pay them? We will pay you back when your father’s shop starts to make a profit!” Eva pleaded, cutting

first reaction was to turn around and run away from this mortifying

to dig a

even one penny. The money she received from the

had never cared about this so-call brother of hers after all. His life or death had nothing to do with

please! Jeff is your brother!” Glenn sighed and almost knelt down to beg her

and there were very few guests in the reception area. Lila glanced around and found that all

only help you this one

had roughly two million dollars left. If she

pros and cons, Lila wrote a check and handed it to Jeff. She hoped the money could drive them

stopped crying immediately and even burst into laughter. At last, he left happily with his

*******

had thought it was

days later, Jeff came to her

pay him more money than just the principal sum of

to find begging on his knees humiliating or degrading

on sleeping with hookers and on purchasing himself a few luxury items. In a matter of just a few

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