“Be more careful for the next two days. Always keep the wound dry and clean.”

My jaw was still hanging in astonishment, reliving his tenderness in my head.

 

“Anna, have you turned mute?” he blurted with a frown from my non-responsiveness.

When I finally got back to my senses, his face was already only an inch away from mine. I nervously drew my focus back onto the chopping board.

After that, Michael went back to the living room, and about half an hour later, dinner was ready.

 

It was simple cooking and not the best, I must say. It did make me wonder why Michael always came here for dinner.

To be frank, I believed that his housekeeper would’ve made something way better than what I could offer.

We sat across from each other and started eating away. Should I ask him about what Mom told me?

 

give my

question had been bothering

 

mind getting on his nerves again anyway, as I’d done that way too many

fast,

as if

you send my family a hundred

fork

that it was exhausting to support the whole family. Since now you’re my woman, things will change. I can send

money because he deduced that

he think that of me! I

When I said that I wanted someone to lean on, I wasn’t asking that person to share my responsibilities. I was just hoping that someone could give me a shoulder to cry on

to oppress the rage in

off to support your

enough, and most of them had bowed down to reality. Still, he shouldn’t stereotype all women as

with him was merely to let him share my burden

to the extent of getting someone to fund my family’s

wasn’t the major spending. It was Steven’s debt that had been sucking my bank account hollow. He

how many times I’d cleared his debt and his countless assurance of turning over a new leaf, he’d always go back to his old

on and give me an endless supply of

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