I pushed the backpack away. "Mom, I really can't take him. I'm going to teach, not to play. Bennett keeps me so busy that I can't get anything done, and my colleagues have a lot of complaints."
Johnson looked up at me in surprise.
Naomi pouted and shook my arm. "Oh come on, you don't rely on your colleagues for your salary. What does it matter if you offend them?"
In the previous life, I was too soft-hearted and was used by her until my death.
In the mirror beside us, her rosy face contrasted sharply with my haggard appearance.
I knocked her hand away. "But if this continues, I'll definitely lose my job."
"After all, our new house relies on Johnson and me to pay the mortgage. I can't afford to lose my income."
After Johnson and I got married, we fully paid for a small one-bedroom apartment. But in my previous life, blinded by naivety, I followed Madeline's suggestion to sell our one-bedroom apartment and used the money as a down payment for a four-bedroom house, living together with Madeline and Naomi's family.
Since none of them worked, Johnson and I paid the mortgage.