Chapter 11 — What Makes You Afraid?

• "This hotel, I'm giving it to you, in your name, darling," he said, gazing at me intently.
• "Oh my, how can this be? It's not that I don't want to, but what he's offering me is incredibly huge. I'm also afraid that someday his wife will find out about this. Plus, I don't want to become a greedy mistress," Mira thought. The woman decided to refuse Dallas's gift. What she needed was money flowing steadily from Dallas, even if it was smaller in amount than receiving something large.
• "Why darling? I thought you would accept my gift," Dallas was puzzled by Mira's decision. He didn't expect Mira to refuse him; usually, she accepted all his gifts. He suspected that something had changed Mira's mind.