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Chapter 23 - Comfort

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Elisha had to laugh.

"No," she answered. "At least, for now. I don't have any lover. I only want to go back to living my life as usual. Study and meet friends. Well, that sort of thing."

Alex remained silent. Elisha, who did not know what was going through his head, only made a curious expression.

"For how long?"

"Pardon?"

"How long are you going to pay off that 200 million bucks, Elisha? I have to wait until when? Let me know the deadline."

"Tha—that—"

"Do you have any detailed strategy to return the money to me? The specialties like 'what, how, when, where, and who,' have you thought about all that?"

Elisha blinked. She, indeed, had no idea.

"I don't need the money."

Now she felt looked like hearing a strange noise.

"But Alex, that's 200 million dollars worth of money."

"Yeah? So?"

"How can you say you don't need it? It sounds no different like you want to throw it to rubbish."

"It's because when you pay it off, the monetary value will fall. So, it's useless for me. I still suffer t
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