The Substitute Wife: My Poor Husband Is A Billionaire

Chapter 539: Borrowing Money  

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!” 

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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. 

Initially, Lila didn‘t even want to give them any thought or consideration, but in the end, she decided to go downstairs. She didn‘t want to be embarrassed by them. 

Lila, she fell to her knees before her with

some money to pay them? We will pay you back when your

and run away from this mortifying situation. It was so humiliating. She wanted to dig a hole to bury herself in it. She had no desire to give them even one penny. The money she received from the White family was for her to live her life. Lila had never cared about this so–call brother of

is your brother!” Glenn sighed and almost knelt down to beg her as well. Fortunately, it

around and found that all the hotel staff were staring at her expectantly. waiting to see what she would say. Lila was so frustrated that she had no

time. And

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

she could be free of them. Now that he had the money in

 

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was over. But a few days later, Jeff came to her again with

accrued, the debt collector said we need to pay him more money than just the principal sum of one

in front of Lila pitifully. He didn‘t seem to find begging on his knees humiliating or degrading in the least bit. In fact, he didn‘t owe any debts at all. He had taken one million and spent

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