Both of them kept talking in whispers about this. Then, Laura came to me. “Anya, I can’t go out to earn money with my dad being like this. Could you lend me some money?
“I promise you. I’ll return it to you in the future.”
I immediately said, “Sure. But you can’t receive bank transfers, right?”
Laura remembered something important: their bank account had been frozen.
I said, “I have some cash back at home. Come with me to get it.
“I also sent Dad and William for a checkup today, so they won’t hurt you. As for Uncle Gary, why don’t we have Adam send him back?”
Laura did not suspect anything. She immediately came with me to my house.
But the moment she stepped through my door, she was dumbfounded.
The gramophone I put in the living room was not the one I gave her. Laura stopped me from getting money for her, and she gnashed her teeth. “That’s not the gramophone I gave you!