SIP AND COZY CAFE
The phone buzzed annoyingly in her bag. Chantelle let out a string of curses under her breath. She can’t understand why her step-brother is continuously bugging her line. He has been calling for a while, and she has persistently ignored it. If there is one thing the people of her family do, it is to drag every uninvited person into their mess. If Bernard calls her out of the blue, he probably got himself into money trouble that she is supposed to help him fix. He would never call for the sake of checking up on her. Not like she expects any humane act from the good-for-nothing bastard. He sure has many guts calling her, which is why her life feels so miserable. A few months ago, it was his mother; now it's him.
Answering calls from people like them would only get her str
