Common Sense Over Nonsense Novels & Stories

her expression immediately darkened. "If I hadn't given Mason's parents the money, how would they have agreed to let him leave the countryside? Is a human life not worth fifty thousand dollars to you? And about the car, what man gets married without buying a car? Whether the marriage is real or fake, I couldn't let Mason be treated unfairly. You're a man too. Can't you put yourself in his shoes?" A metallic taste spread through my throat. Tens of thousands of dollars, and she made it sound so lightly, as if she could take it out whenever she wanted.