Chapter 7
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After the professor had left, Sophie had to shake her head many times to avoid daydreaming about a certain handsome Billionaire. She just wonders how it’s so funny, she has never thought about another man like that before in her entire and suddenly she is thinking about someone she just met not less than twenty-four hours ago.
She kept on hearing his voice in her mind, slipping through and invading her sense of reasoning. Of course, Max noticed something was wrong with her the entire shift so when both their shift ended, he went to talk to her.
He waited in front of the storage room they always use as a mini changing room. He changed his clothes already in the other room. So he just leans on the wall with his phone in his right hand, texting his girlfriend while waiting for Sophie.
A few minutes later, Sophie opened the door and slipped. She almost jumped out of her skin seeing Max suddenly. She wasn’t expecting him to be there so it caught her off guard and her obvious Lost mind didn’t even help her.
” Oh, my God! You scared me!” she said holding her chest to calm herself down. Max just smiled, his theories have been confirmed.
” Fifi dear, where is your mind at?” He asked her, offering to collect her bag which she declined instantly. It was always like that between them after each shift.
” Nowhere, I’m fine. I just wasn’t expecting you there I think” She brushed a stray strand of hair behind her ears with her hand. Her cheeks suddenly grew red in sudden embarrassment. Max will never stop until she spills.
” Hey, I have eyes you know? And guess what they do?”
” They see?” Sophie squeaked out shyly.
” Exactly. Now spill I want to hear all of it. Who is the lucky man that got you daydreaming at work” Max said opening the front door for her. They stepped out of the shop after saying goodbye to Edna.
” I’m not thinking about a man” Sophie denied.
” And I’m engaged to Obama’s daughter. Spill lover girl” He rolled his eyes and made a dramatic face at her poor attempt to lie.
” I met a man yesterday at a club” Sophie blushed finally letting out her secret.
” Holy Molly! Did I just hear a club? As in Sophie Harris AKA ‘What’s fun in going to a crappy party with sweaty and drunk horny people?’ went to a club? Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh,” He started laughing and screaming, flapping his hands like a dramatic jerk he is. Sophie had to cover his mouth to avoid strange looks from the strangers around.
” I don’t know him,” Sophie said to one of them when they started looking at them too much. She was more than embarrassed at Max’s antics.
” wait wait wait. Does Kayla knows about this?” he asked after his dramatic adventure.
” she knew I went to the club but not the fact that I met someone” she replied.
” Who is this man? What is his name? I want every information about him”
” And why should I tell you all of that?” Sophie said folding her hands defensively.
” Girl, I want to know the man who finally captures the heart I couldn’t capture for years within twenty-four hours”
” Chris Morgan” she blurted out.
” wait Chris Morgan? As in CEO of Morgan Technology?”
Sophie nodded.
“Oh, my God! But wait isn’t he kind of married?” Max raised an eyebrow curiously at Sophie.
” He is divorced”
” Even though he is divorced. Isn’t he way older than you? Well, I can’t blame you. That man is beautiful” Max said with a stupid smile that made Sophie slap his arms.
They took the bus together, Sophie is on her way to her father’s house while Max wants to see his girlfriend so he dropped before her.
” When you finally become a billionaire wife, I hope you won’t forget me,” Max called making Sophie blush extensively. That guy is still a child at heart. Billionaire wife her foot, when there are more beautiful looking models out there lining up to be with him.
The bus stopped at her street and she trekked the remaining distance to her house, a small old house located at the end of the Street. She greeted some familiar faces around with a smile before the old rusted iron gate in front of the house. Everything was strangely quiet, too quiet in fact. Normally Noah would be in front of the house waiting for her knowing she will be coming from the college that day. They would smile at each other and exchange a warm hug but he was nowhere to be found.
The air was tense when she entered the house. She noticed that the warm and bubbly atmosphere that her brother always left around the house was nowhere to be found. everywhere was very quiet which was unusual anytime she comes around.
Suddenly she heard her brother scream out in pain. She grabbed her cell phone to call the cops, something is wrong somewhere.
” I wouldn’t do that if I were you sweetheart” a gruff voice whispered behind and she flinched before turning around to find a man probably in his early thirties or older holding a knife while staring at her creepily. He was wearing a dirty black leather jacket with a skull attached to the front without a shirt inside on ck tools and a pair of leather shoes. He looks dangerous and menacing enough to make Sophie gasp out in fear. He is a giant of a man who could knock out Sophie with a snap of his fingers if she dated to disobey him.
“Who are you? And what did you do to my brother?” she croaked out with a shaky voice. She tries so hard to fight the tears that are threatening to spill.
” Nothing in particular, just showing your father how we treat people who refused to pay our money on time,” The man said with a sick sweet smile that made shivers run down Sophie’s spine.
Oh, he was part of those people her father was gambling with. The people to whom her father owes a sum of ten thousand dollars, the people that threatened to rip her family apart if her jobless father refuse to pay what he owes. And now they are making her poor younger suffer to teach her father a lesson. And she will probably be the next person.
” ladies first I believe” The man gestured to her to follow him to where the torture was coming from. She moved her shaky legs and led the way to the kitchen where her father was currently tied to a chair covered in bruises and blood. She look at her brother who was passed out in a corner. United but unconscious and hovering over her brother was a very scary man dressed in all
” wow, I didn’t know you had such a beautiful daughter,” the scary man said with a laugh that brought tears out of Sophie’s eyes in an instant. For the first time in her life, she was really scared and on the verge of a panic attack.
“Get your hands off her!” her father grunted out from where he was tied to. Her father may be a poor reckless human being but he loves his children a lot and he regrets ever gambling in his life because now his two precious children are in danger.
” No, you don’t get to bargain Harris. I gave you a month to pay up only for me to come after three weeks and here you are with not even half of the money!” The scary man shouted at Sophie’s father.
“So it’s been three weeks already?” Sophie thought painfully.
” I could have your daughter and forget about your debt now or I could come back here next week and the Devil help you if my money isn’t ready!” He took a deep breath and let out a loud snort.
” I’m going to kill all of you but before I do, I’m going to make sure I have fun with this one,” he said pointing his knife at every member of the Harris family but stopping on Sophie who was currently trembling. He gave her a sick smile that made her stomach churn, she looks pale all of a sudden, sick even. He signal the big man to follow him but stopped on his way out.
” I would hate to kill such a beautiful girl you know,” he said before slamming the front door behind him.
A few hours later,
Noah had woken up after Sophie tended to his wounds and untied her father. She refused to speak to the man who had put them into the catastrophic situation but choose to stay by her brother’s side. Me Harris had been ashamed to speak to her also but he was grateful she had untied them.
” hmmm,” Mr. Harris cleared his throat.
” You don’t need to clear your throat. You just need to tell me that you have at least found a way out of this mess” Sophie snapped turning to face her father.
” I’m sorry” he muttered.
” but why? Have I not been a good daughter? Why do you have to put us all through this? You are not the first person to lose your wife! Noah and I lost our mother too! But you don’t see us drinking and gambling and getting into debt” she cried out allowing every tear she has been holding to flow freely. All the pent-up frustrations inside started consuming her. She didn’t even know three weeks passed before her father said anything. Now she is almost out of time and hell everything in her bank account won’t even pay half of the debt even if she multiplies it by ten.
” If I had known I would be killed because of fucking ten thousand dollars, why didn’t I commit suicide earlier?”
” I’m sorry FiFi” The man looks remorseful enough for Sophie to see his sincerity but his sincerity won’t get them out of the ugly situation would it? Everything is getting messy every day.
But she knows what to do even if it will make her look cheap and desperate. She will do it, even if it will make her a cheap whore, a woman without dignity. She was down for it, anything to save her neck and take Noah out of this mess. Her father can rot for all she cares, he got them into the situation in the first place. She searched through her handbag for the phone and dialed a number which rings for a while before the receiver pick up.
” Hello Chris”