Page 105 of Vows In Corruption

But luck isn’t on my side and the call gets answers after three rings.

“About damn time, you fucking answer the phone you incompetent twat. Do you have any fucking idea how many times I’ve called you?” The voice makes me shiver and not in a good way.

I square my shoulders as if I’m about to step foot into battle and bring out the bitch that’s inside of me.

“I’ve bee busy. What do you want, Josiah?”

Josiah Sinclair, my mother’s fourth husband and Charlie’s father. I hated him when I first met him when I was eighteen and I hate him even more now.

“I got your all your damn money. Let me guess, you sold your pussy to that billionaire husband of yours to pay me off.”

I want to cry at how close to the money he is.

“How did you know I was married?” I want to be naive and think that he hasn’t seen one of the many magazine articles or newspaper articles talking about how the most eligible bachelor in the world is officially off the market. The press has been hounding us and plastering out pictures all over the the place since I went to a charity gala with Bennett two months ago.

But of course, luck isn’t on my side yet again.

“How do you think? Your picture is all over the damn place baby girl. Did you think that I was going to miss something like that?”

I had hoped.

“Fine. You saw the pictures and you got the money, what the hell do you want?”

I can hear his answer before he even says anything.

“Whatcha think? My price went up.”

Anger runs through my whole damn body. “Like hell it has. I paid you the million you asked for. My side of the deal is set.”

A laugh rings out from the other side and sounds makes me want to puke. “You forgot all about the interest baby girl.”

“Interest? What fucking interest? We did not agree to any interest. You said a million. You got a million.”

“Yeah, well, I want another million. Two hundred grand for each year that it took you to pay off what you owe me and I want it by the end of the month.”

Another million by the end of the month. I can’t pay that.

“No. I can’t do that. I can’t give you more money. Be happy with the money that you got.”

“Then it looks like Charlie is going to come live with me. Newspapers say that you in Chicago. I don’t minds taking a drive up there and going to collect what is mine. How does next week sound?”

Bile comes up my throat and I try my hardest to keep it down but I’m failing.

He can’t take Charlie. If he does, he will destroy her.

The girl that is currently enjoying life with her new family and having the best high school experience will be gone if she goes back to live with monster. Who she is now will just be a ghost of the past that will haunt me forever. She will be absolutely destroyed if after we worked so hard to get where are, she has to go back to living with Josiah in that hell hole.

I can’t do that to her.

I can’t take a life that she loves so much away from her and put back in a place that might kill her.

Tears starts to roll down my face at the thought of my sister no longer being here. Of her no longer laughing and smiling. I can’t lose her like that.

I have to do it.

I have to find a way to get that money and pay Josiah and hope that he doesn’t ask for anymore. But how?

You are married to a billionaire and you have access to his bank accounts.

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