Can’t Win Me Back by Ginger Sue

"Are you Betty Beckett?" The man spoke in Cyrrisian. When Betty heard her mother tongue, she slowly stopped crying and lifted her face.

A stranger in a suit stood in front of her.

"How... How did you know me?" Betty immediately put aside her ego and begged him in tears and snot, "Y-You must be sent by my dad, right? Please, bring me home to Solana City. I do not wish to stay a day longer in this godforsaken place!

"I am really sick right now. It's a serious illness. I might die if I don't receive treatment. Dad won't leave his daughter to die."

The man replied flatly, "I'm sorry, Ms. Betty. Your dad did not send me."

Betty collapsed onto the ground again with a look of disappointment and despair.

The man added, "However, someone would like to meet with you."

Betty had no capacity to think. Hopeless and embattled, she scrambled up from the ground and followed him to a luxury car.

door opened, the first thing that came into her vision was a pair of luxury silver satin stilettos. The ankles of the woman were bony and

when she recalled the shabby outfit she was wearing. The stilettos on that woman were once Betty's favorite brand, but all Betty could do now

enter the car," the man

the car. The graceful woman in the car was surprisingly dressed in a white lab coat. Smiling, she radiated

you." The woman

bullied by her landlord and neighbors, as well as dealing with the drop in quality of life and the sudden AIDS diagnosis, she felt extremely emotional when

the woman quickly handed her some napkins in a

your

"My last name is

Gardner?

face in front of her and sniffled again. She explained, "I. I once knew this annoying bitch who

so? Well, we're destined to meet, it seems." The woman's smile broadened. "I had heard of you when I was in

piqued my interest, so I wanted to check on