Chapter 23
When Willow got back to the apartment, the moment she stepped inside, she was hit with the scent of something delicious
Her line sweetheart, her youngest, had already prepared hunch
Golden scrambled eggs wrapped around perfectly fitted rice, filled with juiry shrimp balls, sliced sausages, tender mat cubes, diced carrots, and string beans
Just looking at it made her stomach growl
As soon as the three kids saw her, they lit up and ran toward her with excitement in their eyes.
Mamat
Willow smiled. her lips curling upward, and just like that, the stress and anger from earlier melted way
Her kids were her cure–all. No matter how hard her day was, one look at their lite faces and everything felt okay again.
She scooped one into her arms kissed another, her heart full of joy.
“Did you take care of your business. Mama?” Brad asked
Willow shook her head. “Not yet. Looks like we’ll need to stay in Santiwill City for a few more days.
“Why didn’t it work out?
The penins I need to most is out of town on a business trip. I have to wait until he returns.”
she didnt tell them the real reason she came back to Santawill City.
The kids had no ides Damien even
existed ||
She didn’t want them to know what happened all those years ago. They were just children… what they needed was to p problem weren’t their to worry about.]
“Alright, no more questions. Mama will figure everything out eventually. Now lets eat
“Okay”
After lunch, the three little ones went down for their nap.
grow up happy and healthy. Achilt
Iter three boys were still young
sat much, but they were growing she couldn’t let them live off plain steamed in
buns
Willow sat on the bed and started counting her money.
All she had left in the world was less than ten thousand dollars.[
So poor.[]
They had to pay for housing for food
Truits, veggies, milk, food, manome of it could be passing from their When the did the math, the cost of raising four people wasict small.||
And these few thousand dollars wouldn’t last long
No money in her pocket, panac in her heart[]
Willow figured the needed to find some part time work something with daily p
daily pay, if possible
After all, Damien’s side said he was out of town, and who knew when he’d come back?||
She couldn’t wait until she was downs to her last coun to go job hunting
But in a world that valued degrees and certificates, she had neither.
the midn’t even apply for the job she really wanted.]
Sigh Willow let out a long breath ||
e couldn’t help brut
Every time she hit this wall, she en
to a top university, but look how things turned out..]]
Life really had messed with her ||
The past? Too painful to revisit]
After browsing online for a while and finding nothing ideal, she finally gave in.
She decided to go for a job that paid well, no
in matter what.]
Comparing all the options.. bartending paid the most.]
guity Daily payout. 380 dollars a night, plus 2% salles commission.
She didn’t like the scene, but thinking of money made her give in.
At 7 pm sharp. Willow showed up at Midnight Life Studios.
Midnight Life Studios… the drunkard’s paradise, the city’s in
most lavish, most high–end nightclub
A money pot where only the wealthy or powerful came to play.
In just over an hour. Willow had sold three bottles of alcohol
Each bottle was over ten
was over ten grind, and just the commission alone had earned her more than a thousand dollars, ||
This world.. if it wasn’t all about degrees and tides, then it was all about looks
