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Chapter One
Alyssa
I fall to my knees in front of the armed men holding my little sister Laura and my mother. Both their eyes are awash with tears, just like mine.
I just returned from my six-hour shift to find our home ransacked and these strange men holding my badly beaten mother and sister.
“I’ll pay what we owe you. I promise,” I say through the tears, “just don’t hurt them anymore, I beg you.” I can feel my body shaking violently as I sob my heart out.
The men look at each other, and they all laugh.
“What does she think this is? A soap opera?” One of the men with a clean-shaven head asks.
“I told you this was a fucking waste of time. Let’s just tidy things up and get going. I don’t have time for all this,” the man holding Laura says.
He cocks his gun and aims it at her head. My mother and I let out a cry of horror in tandem.
I clasp my hands together. “Please, don’t! I have a job,” I sob desperately. “I’ll pay every penny!”
The clean-shaven man looks at the other men, and they all laugh at me.
“You’ll pay three hundred thousand dollars back? You must have a fucking amazing job.”
My heart sinks to the pit of my stomach.
“Please, I’ll do anything,” I gasp.
The men seem to stop and look at each other. And then they grin. The clean-shaven man scans my body and I feel his gaze land on my chest.
He licks his lips, walks up to me, and lowers himself to get close to me. He smells like cigarettes and sweat. I pull away, but he grabs my long, reddish chestnut hair and pulls me back by my ponytail.
“You say you’ll do anything, huh?” he says. He raises his hands to my face and moves his fingers over my skin.
My blood runs cold. My mother starts to sob louder.
“Enoch, Giovanni is on the phone,” one of the men calls out suddenly. The man sighs and tosses me away from him. I gasp as my body hits the floor with a thud.
“Yes, boss, all right, boss,” the man says. There is silence as he listens to the person on the other end. “Of course, boss,” he says.
He returns the phone to the man and turns to me with a grin.
“It turns out you’re just a piece of ass to the boss,” he says, attracting groans from the other men.
“As much as we would have loved a taste, the boss wants you. You’ll be coming with us to meet him.”
I inhale as I try to wrap my mind around everything that is happening.
“Will—will you let them go?” I ask. I nod toward my mother and sister.
The man with the clean shave shrugs.
“The boss owns you now, so your debt is paid.”
“No, no, please, no!” my mother cries. The man holding her lifts his hands to strike her, and Laura screams in fear.
“I’ll go, I’ll go! Please, please don’t hurt them!” I scream in hysteria.
The men look at each other as if there is an unspoken agreement passing between them. The man holding Laura and my mother lets them both drop to the floor.
