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.

or consideration, but in the end, she decided

soon as Eva saw Lila, she fell to her

and now he owes the creditor one million. Can you give us some money to pay them?

turn around and run away from this

was so humiliating. She wanted to dig a hole to

to give them even one penny. The money she

this so-call brother of hers after all. His life or death had nothing

sighed and almost knelt

Lila glanced around and found that all the hotel staff were staring at her expectantly, waiting

was so frustrated that she had no choice but to agree. “I will only help you this one time. And

three million dollars. After these days she had spent at the hotel, she had roughly two million dollars left. If she gave Jeff one million

cons, Lila wrote a check and handed it to Jeff. She hoped the money could drive them away forever and she could be free

money in his hand, Jeff stopped crying immediately and even burst into laughter. At last,

*******

had thought it was

few days later, Jeff came

pay him more money than just the principal sum of one million.” Jeff knelt down in front of Lila

didn’t seem to find begging on his knees humiliating or

all. He had taken one million and spent it on sleeping with hookers and on purchasing himself a few luxury items.

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