"Payment?" Millie's eyes moved stiffly, a hint of disbelief in her tone. "Didn't it always just come out of my account automatically?"

"Sorry, your account's been frozen."

"Frozen? Why?!"

"The account holder requested it."

Requested it...

"Ha! Murray, you're just merciless!" she laughed through her bitterness.

After spending over a month in the hospital, Millie was finally discharged. As she walked outside, the bright sky and fluffy clouds seemed alien to her, as if from another life.

...

Murray left the office early today.

in his car, he instructed his driver, "Take me to

"Right away, Mr. Sherwood."

the darkening sky and the oppressive air reminded him of the approaching storm season, a time he loathed for its damp,

screech of brakes jerked Murray forward, his

wrong?" he snapped,

just

see a woman standing in the rain, drenched, her hair clinging to her neck,

simple white dress, makeup-free, her

in the storm, poised between holding on and being torn away. Even the driver couldn't

security become so lax? Letting just anyone in. Notify security, have her removed." The

leaving the hospital, Millie realized she had nowhere to go. Abandoned by her mother and brother, unable to return to her.

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windshield at the man in the backseat, his profile cold and indifferent. He

window, pounding on it, "Murray, it's me... I'm back...

you're all I have left. I know I was wrong, I swear I'll do whatever you say from now on, I won't cause trouble, I'll be

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