I was 17 when his goons first starting visiting my family asking for money. My father had borrowed money from the mob and couldn't pay it back. When I was 18, I saw him for the first time. He was wearing a pristine suit that day, he was not the tallest man but you could feel his power when he walked into the room. His name was Johnny, and he was the oldest son of the mob family of Toronto.
My father never let me stay in the room when he would come to visit; my mother had died so I was all he had left. Once I was 19, I would stay out later with my friends.
Tonight was the first night I met him officially. I came home around 2am, he was standing in the kitchen waiting for my dad to come back from doing something in the den. He took one look at me and said,
"Are you Mr. Montgomery's daughter?" his accent was hard to place but it was so deep and sexy that I blushed bright red. I responded with "uhh yes, who are you?" He said "My name is Johnny", everything went dark.
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I must have passed out drunk last night,
I thought to myself.
I wonder if my dad is up yet.
I sat up in bed and reached over to my nightstand but I realized that the bed was too big to be my twin bed, it was also too soft to be my bed too. So I scrambled to find a light and final I found a lamp that illuminated the room I was in. It was plain but much more modern than my own room in our shabby apartment. I walked over to the door and opened it; it led to a hallway with 2 more doors. I walked through and found one door led to a bathroom and another door led to another much more extravagant bedroom. The last door was locked so I assumed it was the door to get out of this weird apartment.
Suddenly the door opened and Johnny walks through, I look shocked and he looks somber.
"Hello Rachel"
"Hi" I barely squeak out, my heart is pounding and I feel nervous being alone with him.
"Do you know why you're here?" he asks.
"No, did something happen to my father?"
"No, he sold you to me to pay off his debt." He says with no level of empathy or remorse.
"WHAT? My father wouldn't do that! You kidnapped me!" I yelled at him. He was not deterred in any way.