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.

them any thought or consideration, but in the end, she decided to

Eva saw Lila, she fell to

money and now he owes the creditor one million. Can you give us some money to pay them? We will pay you back when your

first reaction was to turn around and run away from

She wanted to dig a hole to bury

penny. The money she received from the White family was

after all. His life or death had

brother!” Glenn sighed and almost knelt down to

was very late at night and there were very few guests in the reception area. Lila glanced around and found that all the hotel staff were staring at her expectantly, waiting to see

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

a total amount of 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 to pay the debts, she would still have one million for

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

in his hand, Jeff stopped crying immediately and even burst into

*******

thought it

a few days later, Jeff came to her again

need to pay him more money than just the principal sum of one million.” Jeff knelt down

didn’t seem to find begging on his knees humiliating

spent it on sleeping with hookers and on purchasing himself a few luxury items. In

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