Chapter 61: Stranded

Can they have the million dollar necklace Ewan had given her as a birthday gift last year?

No! How could she make such an unfair trade?!

She shakingly dialed her father’s number again. Fortunately for her, he picked.

"Hello Dad..." She exhaled harshly in relief as she turned her back to the chief waiter and his subordinate.

"What is the problem, Fiona? Why have you been calling consistently?"

Fiona sighed at the irritation in her father’s voice. It informed her of how crazy he would get when he finally heard what happened.

But Fiona was banking on the fact that he would never leave her hanging dry in trouble, that he would never leave her stranded.

"Dad, I’m in a fix."

"You’re always in a fix, Fiona. What exactly is the problem this time around?"

Fiona inhaled deeply before narrating the story of the evening to her father. When she was done, the other side of the line was quiet.

Why? Did something happen?

"Dad?"

There was no response.

She turned to look at the waiters, and noticed that it was only the head waiter waiting, that he already looked impatient, and that the other waiter was already attending to the next table.


"So, Fiona, in the current state of things, you squandered thousands of dollars just to eat for one night?"

A pause.

"Don’t you have a conscience? Don’t you ever think about somebody other than yourself? Why are you so selfish?!"

The last statement was basically so loud that Fiona removed the phone from her ear, stared at it for a second, before returning it to her ear.

"So now, you want me to send you the money, since Ewan has blocked your cards?"

meekly, only because her father’s voice was now

"You are a fool..."

that insult. Her father

you don’t have a spare account where you keep money since

answer for her

are a fool, Fiona, and for the first time in your life, I’m glad you’re stranded. Maybe, it’s time for you to be taught

gripped Fiona. She knew that whatever was coming next won’t

folding up. Athena was right. I have to sell out, if I have any chance of seeing some amount of money. In essence, the money you are looking for isn’t with me. So, for once in your life, Fiona,


Then the call ended.

head in unbelief, and tried the number again. This

father just block her

eroded with shock, so much so that when the chief waiter tapped her impatiently on the shoulder, she

grasped her roughly, and turned her

stupid?! How dare you touch me

chief waiter sneered at her. "Just pay up, madam. You’re wasting

a

irritation, and sat on the seat. "You have two minutes.

ignored him. Who else

the phone to call her friends, but stopped. If her father didn’t help

would ask her why her status had suddenly plunged, and then they would spread the gossip

had, each time, spearheaded the gossip about a lady friend of theirs that was


the favor when

there really no one

deteriorated to

her life

calculations, she saw that her miserableness had started since

Athena!

that woman

harsh knock on the table, she knew her

I can do, maybe tonight, to pay a part of the money, so that I

the rest of the

too stressful, worse she could easily be spotted by someone who knew

happened, it was all

"Is there something else?"


waiter was tired of these problems. When he had heard that Fiona was here, he had expected the extravagant display, but not

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