The Debt by Lumby Mark

Author:Lumby, Mark [Lumby, Mark]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Horror
Publisher: Dark Terror Publications
Published: 2018-06-01T04:00:00+00:00

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Twenty years. Twenty thousand dollars a month. Twelve times Twenty thousand. That would make two hundred and forty thousand over a year. That times twenty years would make two hundred thousand short of five million. Five million dollars, and with the addition of five hundred thousand to the Brown brothers: Five million five hundred thousand over twenty years. That’s how much his life was worth. When Francis Dupont had asked him that same question, he didn’t stop to think about the extra money he was being given. That wasn’t part of the deal. Five hundred thousand to pay off his debt to the Brown brothers; that was the deal. But that’s how much his life is worth: Five and a half million. It was worth a lot more than that, though. Twenty years had given him Lucy and Anja. It had given him a family. It had helped Sam out over a dozen times and had made the final payment on his house, too. Not to mention given his brother the money for the IVF. Twenty years had given Sam a family, too.

So why would Francis Dupont have gifted him so much? It was beyond the money. It was family. The gift was priceless. It was impossible to pay back. There was only one payment that would match such generosity. And although for a while Jack was having nightmares thinking about what Francis would want from him, there was this one question he couldn’t shake that fuelled the nightmares. How much do you value your Life?

Jack Monday sat on the cobbled beach overlooking the lake. Anja and Lucy were baking. The smell of chocolate cake and cinnamon drifted into the fresh pine air. Sam had demanded to make the trip for his brothers fiftieth, although Jack had insisted for him not to. An afterthought had convinced Jack that it sounded more like a warning than insistence. And besides, he still hadn’t revealed his address even after twenty years living at the lake. In three days, they had once again arranged to meet up at Romeo’s. His birthday would be over by then. But it didn’t matter. Today was November 18th, and he was now fifty.

That day had arrived: the day where Francis wanted something back. He still had no idea what that something might have been, although over-thinking and speculation were the cause of several sleepless nights of late, and the same stress that had aged him all those years ago was beginning to show its ugly face.

Lucy had been homeschooled since the beginning; Anja seemed as though she knew what she was doing so Jack had no concerns about her education. Although, where they lived, they were alone. The nearest town was thirty miles away; the nearest city was 150 miles. A public school was impossible. Lucy was eighteen now.

Sometimes, it looked to Jack that Anja had wanted to tell him something for some time, pull him aside and reveal some dark disturbing secret that would horrify him. But she never did.

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