The Mafia's Prize

Grace went to get her father new drugs from her

his prescribed dosage. She coughed out to attract his attenti

hole nonsense he was spewing? I didn't understand anything. Could you please expl

gh. Shaking his head in pit

e his decisions, he speaks once, he's dreadful, and no one dares go a

er questions. He heaved a weary sigh, folding his arms togethe

all hard for me. I took to drinking when I met some men. They were bad associates, but I felt like needed them then. We

brief moment,

friends approached me and told me about a business I could be involved in that w

nd eventually cajoled me into lending some money from Wal

at her father

while in the university, she had proposed the idea of coming back home to sta

he was moving

t?" She asked, surprise

pool game. I won, and he said he would lend

he money?" She asked him ag

d dollars." He answered, and Grac

hat happened to it

vest, I didn't find my friends anymore. They left with

to let anyone do that to you?" She was disap

, but the situation at hand

ws me in jail if I don't." He panicked as he thought of w

do, Dad?" Grace inq

now and the only way is..." He stared at her, and

, D

ld worsen things. He's a vicious man. He would render you homeless, throw me in jail, and ta

sion. She understood what

want me to do here. Do you want

my debt." He bowed his head and rubbed his temples, closing his eyes, he felt a sharp pai

married to him?" She

from this, Grace." Richard stare

her father, she shook her head in disa

w can you tell me to go marry a man

iled off when he held her shoulders, rubbing them g

Please, Grace, save me, and the family, and you won't even have to be wi

t on the couch and glared at h

undred thousand dollars?" She was interested in th

a short period, we will get the money and pay him back, and then, you can file

ld up those ideas and how he even m

get such an amount?" She scoffed. "Father, I

h me die?" He held her han

nections, and he's even involved with t

heaven." He relaxed on the couch, letting

so much and cared for her. Growing up as a child, he made sure he gave her all th

d to a stranger was never part of the plan, she closed her eyes, and tears dripped do

her had made a lifetime mistake, and now it would even cost her own life. Grace was not

tifully, and he was close to tears. She knew she couldn

him." She ag

ness on his face, it wasn't his joy to give his daughter away, bu

She sobbed, and he pulled her i

logized and hoped that she would

e thought of everything and wasn't sure she wanted to do

that. She sighed and rested on the teddy bear she got as a birthday present from Allison, her best

loved a man, and now, she wasn't just going to

; she was thankful he had never been married, but that didn't

ed on the screen. She dialed Allison's number and placed

her eardrums. She sighed, wishing Allison co

married." She broke

or a few seconds and stopped

asked, "And stop this joke. I'm not in t

l thing to say, but she and Allison had gone past that stage, she was her best friend and more li

t's terrible!" A

e?" She a

of Walter's Holdings," she

h! Are you kidding me

us. Do you

ee his body. He's so hot and devilishly handsome! Oh my

brity news and was sure she had re

him too? What are his

w what to feel!" Alliso

d get married at twenty-four, and now, I'm even jobless, I have no savings, I'm just twenty-three, and Dad wants me to save him by

Just be positive abou

e with a stranger for the rest of my life? I can't ha

on now. You have to save your father from going to jail, o

to do, so difficult, and

ur back anytime and any day. Don't worry too much about it, b

was it, she was going to marry Walter Jericho, sh

si