Chapter One Hundred And Thirty Six

Adriana’s POV

“I can’t do that! How heartless can you be?!” I yelled into the phone and pressed it to my ears while my hands shook in panic.

“Do you think it’s that easy for me to raise such a huge amount of money all the time? When exactly did you turn into a charity organization that I have to donate some money to regularly?!” I spat angrily, feeling more infuriated than ever with Caden’s excesses.

Right now, he was trying to threaten me into giving him the two million dollars he asked for, and no matter how many times I told him that I couldn’t raise it now, he just wouldn’t believe me.

“Don’t test me, Adriana, I have his contact, and the more time you take to send me that money, the more I get the urge to click the send button.” He answered instead, choosing to ignore the part where I said I didn’t have the money.

I huffed, blowing out my chest to relieve myself of the tension I was feeling in there but somehow, it seemed as though the entire universe was against me today because