Love's New Bloom by Simone Hastings

Chapter 43 Repayment of Debt

Erin smiled awkwardly, “Yes, I only have that one best friend.”

Caleb sighed and said, “Well, I guess we’ll have to do it another day. I’ll eat alone today. I won’t keep you any longer.”

“Thank you, Mr. Grant.”

When Erin was taking the elevator up to the highest floor, her phone rang. She had a look and saw that it was from an unknown number. She picked up, thinking that it might be her mother.

“Hello, am I speaking to Erin Lane?”

When she heard a rather unfriendly man’s voice on the phone, she said in detest. “Yes, I am. Who are you?”

“You can call me Tony. Your parents are with me right now. Your father owes me ten million dollars from gambling, yet your mother only. brought two million over, naively thinking she could take him away. If everyone who owes me doesn’t repay me, my reputation will be

ruined!

Tony was clearly unhappy. Although he wasn’t speaking fiercely, his cold tone still frightened Erin. She didn’t need to guess that Tony was

no saint!

She did not feel like explaining herself at that moment, so she cautiously and calmly asked, furrowing her brow. “Tony, how do you want to settle

added, “But don’t worry. Things like broken limbs or fingers won’t happen here. If you don’t cough up the other eight million dollars, I won’t let your parents go. I’ll make them stay

that even if they lived up to 800 years old, they still wouldn’t be able to pay me back! The

not worth any money to me, but since they’re your parents, don’t say I’m not treating you all nicely. I’ll give you a week to

to stay collected while listening to Tony finish what he had to say, even if she was already bursting with rage. She calmly said, “I

point, Tony’s voice sounded a little far away. “Hey, you two! Bring the old couple here.”

phone. Cherry choked up, saying, “Erin, I’m so sorry! I lied to you! Grayson got tricked by his friend and owed a casino 10 million dollars! How are we

are you and Mr. Lawrence now? Are you all hurt?” Erin sounded agitated,

but Grayson seems to be in shock. He’s in a daze

them back up!” Tony’s voice rang through the phone

already so frightened she was sweating profusely. Never in her life would she imagine having to encounter people from the casino! Thinking about how that unscrupulous Grayson had dragged her mother into this, she wanted to slap him a

that moment. Even if Grayson wasn’t her real father, he had paid for her education and brought her up since she was young. She was indeed indebted to him. More importantly, her

mother

She immediately redialed. The moment the call connected, Tony said impatiently. “I’m telling you. Don’t call if you can’t get me the eight

elevator for quite a while already. Looking at that long corridor heading to the president’s office, she got up and re–entered

mattered was to solve the problem of getting the money. Erin

Jones, and took an emergency leave of absence before

to the side of the road to hail a taxi. At that moment, the only person she wanted to see was Holly.

her the

didn’t even think of lan, her

few seconds, thinking whether she should ask him for money, but if she