Chapter 37

Larissa glanced at the collection bills in Mrs Hardy’s hands. The top most one alone was ten thousand dollars. If it all added up-

Seeing the hesitation on her face, Mrs. Hardy wiped away her tears and wailed again. “The nurse said, if we don’t pay soon, we’ll have to bring Travis home. Travis has suffered such serious injuries. It’s been a day, and his condition is still critical–if the hospital doesn’t let him stay, he’ll die! You’re his wife! You can’t just stand there and do nothing!”

Her last two sentences were extremely misleading. Many of the people queuing at the payment counter immediately cast looks filled with contempt and disdain at Larissa.

Larissa turned her back on them. She tried to not look at them to reduce the pressure she felt to be responsible for Travis condition.

She had already seen it all–when she had to deal with the Hardy family, saving herself from embarrassment was not an option.

She accepted the bills and flipped through them. From her rough calculations, they all amounted to about thirty thousand dollars.

Thirty thousand dollars wasn’t a lot to her, but it wasn’t exactly a small amount either.

She knew that if she’d just paid for Travis‘ medical bills now unconditionally, she would never get that money back from him nor his family.

So, she told Mrs. Hardy, “I’ll loan you the money, but you’ll have to write me a debt acknowledgment form.”

said. Or, even if she had understood her requests, it was

making me–write you a debt acknowledgement form?” Her voice was very loud, her tone

I want you to write

unwilling, Larissa did not force her

her. “Travis stole the ownership of a

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care, sell that house.

Let those people who couldn’t mind their own business

arm before she could leave. Her head bobbed up and down, almost frantically. “I’ll write you

notepad and

compartment in her backpack. Then, she followed Mrs. Hardy back to the payment counter and paid off the thirty thousand dollars of debt for

job in the hospital was done, Larissa had no intention of

alone would cost us more than a few hundred dollars. Since neither

apparent–she needed more money from

to herself that they really thought of her as naive.

Amber’s fault, you should go and ask her to pay for it. If she refuses

Mrs. Hardy

the bustling activity. Just as Mrs. Hardy was

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