Chapter 38

Elio stared at the notice he had just received from the bank warning him that his payment was due in just three days and he cursed himself inwardly for the trap he had gotten himself into. For the past three weeks, all he had done, all he had thought about was how he would clear himself out of the mess he had gotten himself into. And he had done everything in his power to make sure that everything he had worked hard for was not taken away from him.

Yet it seemed like he hadn't done anything tangible at all. Once he had gotten the grief he felt for being betrayed by the person he had trusted enough to leave all his life savings with, he had picked up the pieces of his shattered heart and mended them back into one, not minding the imperfect state it was in. But it seemed that everything he had done had been futile.

As soon as he was able to find a car dealer who could buy off his two cars without telling his father about it, Elio had sold th