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Chapter 9
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My Slum Apartment Hides a Gold Mine Chapter 10
That afternoon, Julie and I went to the shopping mall to buy a crib. Along the way, we walked past a lottery shop on the first floor.Julie stopped and tugged at my hand. "Milo, let's buy a lottery ticket.""What for? Do you really think we'll win something?""Let's try our luck." Julie tugged on my arm. "We've had such terrible luck lately. It's about time things started going our way."I couldn't talk Julie out of it, so I pulled out ten dollars and purchased a random scratch-off ticket. I was still looking at my phone, responding to Mom's text, when I scratched off the coating.Suddenly, Julie pinched my arm, making me yelp in pain."What's up?"Julie pointed at the scratch-off ticket, her lips trembling just the way they had when she saw the gold back then. I looked down at the ticket. First prize. It was a total of 50 million dollars. Julie and I stood in the mall walkway as people walked past us. No one knew that the young couple standing in the corner had just w
My Slum Apartment Hides a Gold Mine Chapter 9
By doing that, Barry thought he could protect his other daughter. He never knew that the daughter he had lost had been right by his side, lying beneath the bay window where he slept. Julie walked over to me and crouched beside me, reaching out to take my hand. Her hand was as cold as ice, but she held mine tightly. "Milo." Her voice was very soft but steady. "Call the police."I turned to look at her. "I know the gold is worth over six million dollars." Julie looked at me, her eyes still red, but she never broke eye contact. "But if we take the gold and pretend we saw nothing… If our child asks us one day how we made our first fortune, what would I even say? That I took the gold from right next to the body of a murdered female college student?"I felt a lump form in my throat.Julie sniffled. "Three million dollars is more than enough for us to buy an apartment, Milo. We don't need a very luxurious apartment. I'm not picky. We can't use money like this."I stared at Julie f
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"Let's leave it there for now. We'll talk about it after my dad gets discharged from the hospital."Julie and I returned to the old, run-down apartment to deal with the mess. I had completely wrecked the living room, and the bay window in the master bedroom had been smashed open. Even half of the kitchen ceiling had collapsed.While Julie grabbed a broom and started clearing the broken bricks, I went to the master bedroom, pulled out the bundle of gold, and set it on the bed. The gold bars were lined up neatly. Julie crouched next to the bed, staring at them. When she reached out to touch them, her fingertips recoiled slightly."The gold's really heavy.""That's 110 pounds right there."Julie smiled, the corners of her mouth turning up. That was the first genuine smile she had had over the past few days.I bent down and started clearing scattered chunks of concrete out of the cavity beneath the bay window, preparing to seal the opening again. As I scraped the debris away, my fi
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Julie said she wanted to abort our baby. Where could she be now? Which hospital did she go to? The women's and children's hospital? Or Kenton Hospital?As I stared at the screen, I suddenly recalled something. Julie and I had turned on our location-sharing so we could see each other's location.Back then, Julie insisted on doing that so she could always see where I was. That way, I wouldn't sneak off to an internet cafe to play games. I quickly checked her location, which showed that she was at the women's and children's hospital. I rushed out of the hospital and hailed a taxi. In the back seat, my legs shook so violently that I couldn't keep my feet on the floor.The taxi driver glanced at me several times through the rearview mirror. "Young man, are you okay?""Sir, could you please step on it? I need to get to the women's and children's hospital. My girlfriend's over there."When I got to the women's and children's hospital, I rushed inside and made my way to the front de
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I pried open one of the panels. The entire ceiling gave way under the weight and immediately collapsed halfway. Bills came raining down on me, hitting my head and shoulders.I stood there without moving as money piled around my feet, nearly reaching my calves. I was buried in three million dollars in cash. A wave of dizziness overwhelmed me. My vision went black, and I collapsed into the pile of cash. By the time I came to, I had no idea how much time had passed. My face felt cool from the bills pressed against my skin.I groggily opened my eyes. All I saw was cash.The old voice rang out again, clearly impatient. "You passed out, didn't you? What a loser. I can't believe you fainted just from seeing three million dollars in cash."Quickly get up. Your dad's waiting at the hospital for you to pay for his surgery. Your girlfriend's going to abort your baby too. Aren't you going to stop her?"I immediately sat up, and the bills covering me slid down onto the floor. "The money…
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After I heard what the old voice said, a shiver ran down my spine. I was rooted to the spot. I sat alone amidst the broken bricks and plaster dust.Dad just had a heart attack, Mom was crying on the phone, and Julie said she wanted to abort our baby. And I was just sitting there like a fool, holding a metal detector and staring at a blank wall, thinking some great fortune had fallen into my lap. I raised my hand and slapped myself hard. Just then, I heard the familiar voice again."So freaking noisy! Why are you tearing the place apart in the middle of the night? Can't you let me get some sleep?"I was rooted to the spot."You were just swinging the sledgehammer at the wall. Don't you know you were smashing the wrong wall? You're so stupid!"I immediately looked up. I choked on the dust and coughed a couple of times. "Who's there? Who are you?""Who else? I'm the house itself. I haven't said a word about you smashing my walls, and now you want to know who I am?"My ent
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