“You‘re making it look like I owe you money! Now you‘re even asking me to lend you some more?” Lila was completely dumbfounded.

 “You‘ve taken all my money. I have nothing left. Go to someone else!” She was telling the truth. She didn‘t have a penny to her name. 

“I don‘t believe you!” Jeff shot back. He raised his head and shouted at Eva, who was in her room, “Mom, Lila claims to have no money! She just wants us to be killed by the debt collectors!” 

Hearing this, Eva and Glenn rushed out of the room at once. 

“You told her?” Eva hissed through gritted teeth. Then, she put on a flattering smile and turned to Lila.

 “Could you just lend Jeff some money? We‘re all family anyway, right? You can‘t possibly just watch your brother suffer.” 

These people were driving Lila nuts. She shouted hysterically, “But I really have no money!” 

Eva paused for a few seconds and then said, “Ask the Whites for some money then. We have to deal with the debt collectors.” 

He‘s the one in debt, not me!” Lila sneered.

clicked her tongue and said, “What‘re you

obvious that Lila alone had shouldered all the troubles. “I can‘t go to the Whites.

felt too ashamed to go to

us alone! Our lives are in your hands now, Lila! You have

Lila was speechless. These people were crazy!

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to

her plight to Johanna and Beal, they gave her three million for the sake of

didn‘t end there. Not long after Jeff left with the money, he returned home without a penny left. He knelt down in front of Lila and burst into tears.

 

red paint on their door and walls. Eva couldn‘t fight them, so she had no choice

can, Eva pulled Jeff and Glenn close to her and said pitifully, “The three of us will die here today, lest you help us!”

her with their

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