Wilbur smirked. "And what if | don't want to leave?"
Bobby sputtered, not knowing what to say in response for once. Wilbur's air of authority was unlike anything he had ever seen, and
he was starting to panic a little.
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtWilbur scoffed, looking at Kory. "What really happened?"
Kory, having escaped the death he had been chasing, now seemed to treat Wilbur like an outlet to express his emotions.
"Please, Sir, help us out here. We're both working-class people who have never taken out a loan before, but a month ago we
received a letter of reminder from the bank for a loan of eighty million dollars. Apparently, the loan was overdue, and we were to
pay up, but we never even borrowed that money in the first place!" Kory blurted out, his voice shaky.
Wilbur frowned. "Couldn't you just have the bank prove that?"
"We went to the bank, but they said the loan happened three years ago and they don't have the records from then anymore. We
took a look at the loan contract, and it was indeed applied for under our names, with our IDs too. However, the signatures didn't
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏmbelong to us at all. We asked for an appraisal, but they rejected it and just insisted we pay up. They had our houses sealed off by
the court, and these people hound us to pay up every single day. We've lost our jobs and even lost a place to stay. This is no way to
live, we're terrified every second of our life!" Kory said, sobbing even harder.
Wilbur sighed. It was not far from what he had predicted.
Wilbur had pretty much understood what happened from the conversation just now.
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