Eevonne was speechless. She did not say anything for a long while. Tears just kept streaming down her face.
It was after a long moment that she said with a catch in her throat, "Kingston, I...I won't borrow money from you. I would never borrow money from anyone from now on! Thank you."
"Silly!" Kingston shouted!
"This is not the time to talk about integrity. Take it one step at a time for all matters and solve them one step at a time as well. Everything has to be completely resolved today! Since you trust me, then listen to me. Be good. Take this fifty thousand dollars!" Kingston looked at her extremely seriously.
"Kingston..." Eevonne replied.
"Take it!"
Eevonne knew that since things have already turned out this way, and since she has already completely fallen out with her cousins, she has to make this move. Otherwise, she would hurt not only herself but Kingston as well.
With her face covered in tears, she accepted the slip from Kingston and handed it to her cousin, "This is for the thirty thousand dollars that I owed you. You asked me to pay back fifty thousand dollars to you in two years. I've paid you back now. You have nothing more to say, right?"
"That won't do! You're late!" Her cousin seemed to have forgotten that he had already exceeded the maximum limit in
terms of the interest that he wanted to collect, which was against the law.
He pointed at Eevonne once again. "The due date for repayment was a month ago. You've dragged it for a month, so you've long made a violation. I want to take your house myself now. This is a fair trade! Besides, my aunt has already agreed.
Eevonne, your words mean nothing in this house. This is my aunt's house, she's the one who has the final say! We must take this house away!"
It was already at the final moment, so of course, her cousin would fight to get as much as he could.
"Fine! You’re truly something else. You really are a person who won't easily take action without a clear target!" Kingston looked at him and sneered before he said again, "Didn't all you kept insisting that I
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