Hailey closed her eyes. “How could she say that as a mother?” However, she didn’t want her mother to know that they needed to spend over three hundred thousand dollars to regain their freedom.

“It’s not that simple,” she replied.

“It wasn’t complicated in the first place, right?” Eva was a little scared.

“We don’t want your money; we can pay it back. Your uncle doesn’t even need to live in such a pleasant neighborhood, and we can repay him.”

“And we ...