Love's Bitter Edge (Eva and Leonard)

Chapter 10

Ever since I started working again, I felt my spirit returning a little. Most importantly, I finally had a salary.

The finance team had miraculously given me a month's base pay yesterday. 20,000 dollars was already a huge sum for me.

I did not dwell on why I got a full month's pay for just three days of work. Leonard would not care about such a small amount of money anyway.

I immediately transferred ten thousand dollars to Emma. It had been a lot of work for her to bring healthy meals for two people every day.

Although her salary was not low, having to take care of both her grandmother and me was really too much.

Sadly, she did not accept the money. She even came to the hospital to scold me.

"What am I? A beggar? You think just anyone can eat the food made by the great Ms. Carter? Don't transfer me anything less than ten or 20 million."

I held my bowl while smiling at her. "Emma, I went back to work and got paid. He he."

"What are you grinning about? Your body hasn't fully recovered yet. Hurry up and eat, you're so annoying."

on my plate.

with tears welling up in my eyes. It was such a waste of oysters with how bad her cooking skills

chatting. When she found out I was taking on design work again, her eyes

thinking or worrying too much worsen your

the mention of Leonard, we both stopped talking. This man was

"Work and money make me happy. It's

talent of an underachiever like me. Maybe one day

You'll have a better immune system when you're fatter. "You should eat more oysters. I'll bring you some every day from now on. Remember

silently, but I was secretly calculating how much money that would be. Oysters were really expensive. For protein, eggs and milk were more cost-effective. Fortunately, I had a salary now, so food should not be a worry. Perhaps it was because my

you're amazing. The revised proposal passed on the first try. You have no idea how much the design department had been dealing with them for months and kept getting rejected. "Now, everyone's waiting for you to come back and lead us. You have to get

be true. My presence in the

and professional matters. He was always

not want to drag everyone down because of me again. But now, things were different. I had to focus

there's no problem with Dawnstar Corporation. This

commission. It should be enough for half a year's medication. The thought of that made my mood improve even more. I had an extra half year

meet you immediately to have

she rushed over right after work. I proposed the design, so I should indeed be the one talking to them. Others did not understand the project, which might make things worse.

a bit. Thinking about how I had not seen Buddy for a long