Chapter 1058

Then, the man turned away and walked off, ignoring him. Limping, William tried to catch up and cursed behind him, “Hey, bastard, give me back my money! Hey! I’ll fucking kill you!” “Crazy!” The man cursed, climbed onto his tow truck, and left. William glared furiously at the tow truck as it had gone far. He certainly couldn’t catch up with the truck and his anger was slowly replaced by deep despair again. His current main and urgent concern was how to handle the five hundred thousand dollar debt. He felt like his world was crumbling down on him. At this moment, he thought of Juanita, his girlfriend. William was an orphan with no parents and relatives to rely on. When he and Juanita became a couple, he had automatically assumed her as his only relative. Now that he encountered such a major setback and in desperation, his only hope was to see his beloved woman and anticipate the comfort and warmth she would offer him. Hence, he wiped his messy face with his shirt, limped to the community entrance, and stopped a taxi. At first, the taxi driver was reluctant as he looked at William’s disheveled looks, but William grabbed his rearview mirror and shouted, “If you refuse my service, I’ll complain until you die!” The driver gulped with fright. He didn’t dare to blatantly refuse him, so he let him into the car and drove to the neighborhood where his girlfriend’s house was located according to his request. However, William was totally broke now. There was no way he could afford the taxi fare, so he sketched up a vicious idea. There was a very narrow and winding alley near Juanita’s house that cars could not fit in, so if he asked the driver to stop at the alley, he could get into the alley while the driver was not looking and quickly escape. In this way, he could get away with it without paying the taxi fare.

He was determined to do so after drafting the plan. When he was approaching Juanita’s house, he asked the driver to stop at the alley. The driver turned off the meter and said, “Forty-five dollars.” William nodded. He took out his phone and said, “I don’t have cash, I’ll pay via online transfer.” “There’s a QR code in the back row, you can just scan it.” William pretended to scan the QR code, flicking with his phone for a while, and said, “Alright, I’ve transferred the money already.” “No, I haven’t received a notification yet. I have a voice prompt set up here.” “Maybe the connection is bad around here. You’ll get it soon.” Then, William immediately pushed the door open and ran into the narrow alley as if his life depended on it. He thought he was so familiar with the terrain of the alley that he could get rid of the driver by running into it, but he had underestimated his own injury from the beating. His legs went jelly and he felt a sharp pain in his abdomen as soon as he got out of the car, and fell to the floor clumsily. The driver had also realized that he was going to run, so he quickly ran out of the car to catch him. He huffed angrily as he stared at him on the floor, “Oh, did you think you can just run before paying? Give me my money!”