The Return Of The God of War

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She watches her mother's mouth move as she tries to get the words out, but it doesn't work.

Her mother, still stammering, walks to the cooking pot and turns off the heat.

Melody ignores her and continues to chop up her tomatoes, but this time around, she does them impetuously, in irregular sizes and when she is done, she dumps everything into a bowl and washes her hands in the sink.

She turns to leave the kitchen, but her mother grabs her arm, stopping her.

" Melody, what do you mean your debts were cleared?" Her voice is low, subdued. " How? When? By who? Duke?"

Melody is so irritated that she shrugs her mother off and takes a step away from her.

" You've said it already. Duke is a church rat and we don't have millions of dollars sitting in an account. " She fires. " Does it even matter? The thing is that I am not a debtor anymore and I am fucking happy about it. "

" Who did it?"

" The kind owner of Russell Bank, and he has become an investor who has invested twenty million do