Indebted Love

Jasmine

"Hello Hello Hello Teawan City , Cottagecore Pie is open! start your morning with our coffee! Yes ; along with ice creams now we have delicious coffee for your mornings that will enrich your day , so come on" I grin at william after I speak in the loudspeaker and my bubbly voice echoes outside of our ice cream palour and my smile widens as I see a man passing by turning to look at my voice .

At least one person noticed ; that is a good sign.

"Well , I hope our idea of morning coffee with snacks works" William says adjusting newspaper on book shelf "not until you stop putting boring politics newspapers on the top of spicy romance novels" I say and nod and he chuckles.

He shakes his head and takes the news paper bundle from the shelf and walks towards me , his kind eyes smiling at me and I grin at him , bending a little to grab my coffee whisk and mug as he puts the bundle on the coffee table "decoration is on your account , daughter ! Keep it wherever you think people will look at it"

He says with hope dimming eyes and my smile threatens to fall.

Oh no ! He can't give up!

I and my friend , professor and father's best friend, we both have put all our savings for our this little start of ice cream parlour shop and it's only been two weeks since we opened it , it'd take time but we will have whole city talking about our delicious hand made ice creams and special coffee with spicy books to grab , at least that is what I hope for.

He looks outside at the crowd rushing and sighs and I put the whisk and mug on table and grab his aging and wrinkled large hands in my smaller ones "hope is the most beautiful thing in the whole world, if not today then someday , if not 50 customers then 5 , our Cottagecore Pie will grow" I say to him and nod with a smile . He looks me in the eyes and something unreadable crosses his face and his eyes saddens more.

Oh no.

What wrong did I say? Dad is probably right to say that I never learnt when to speak and how !

I open my mouth to say something more to cheer him up but he speaks "I am not worried about spending all my savings in this shop , neither for only getting 9 customers in two weeks , as long as you and cassie - my two baby girls are happy , I'm fine"

Then what is it?

My eyebrows raises and then lips parts as I try to remember his medical reports "did the doctor-"

"It hurts to see a rare selfless good girl like you suffering , Richard will realize his mistake but it'd be too late till then"

He says and I swallow deeply and bite my lip as the memory of dad getting angry at me for making him slightly burnt omelet flashes through my memory .

Two weeks ago , at lunch, I was making him omelet and on the edge , it somehow got burnt and I missed to see it , if I'd have seen then I would have kept the burnt omelet for myself and would've served him another but it was mumma's death anniversary, that was the day I lost my mother to cancer ten years ago , I could barely focus on anything , I could barely eat or talk or so much as breathe , I was so lost in my grief that I missed seeing the slight burn in his otherwise perfect omelet and I was startled when he threw the plate with omelet and it crashed against the wall and he started yelling , I could barely speak through my tears of knowing he won't hug or console me at mumma's death anniversary like some part of me, hoped , not like he remembered the day and then as he was yelling at me , saying words no father should say to his daughter and I broke down and started whimpering thinking of mumma , If she was alive then she'd never have let dad treat me so bad , he said he doesn't want an absent mind crying mess in home and dragged me out of the house and then he threw me out . Ever since mumma died , he despises me with every morsel of his because by some dirty game of fate , she got cancer the same year that I was born. Unlike every other time , that day I could not fight or beg him to calm down , I let it happen and one moment I was making omelet in kitchen - another, I was pushed and thrown out in our garden .

And then after hours of silent crying in garden, I stood up and walked to my one and only friend Cassie , William's daughter and she was kind enough to hug me and force me to stay with her in her house when I said I didn't want to be a burden on her , not like I had money for hotel or anything .

The only reprieve was this shop that I and William were planning from two months , so I started giving my every second to this shop from that day.

I stop tears from threatening my eyes at the memory flash back as horns blows outside in the busy streets.

I can't cry.

I . Can . Not .

William has critical medical conditions and I can't cry in front of him , I can't stress him !

"Everything is okay at the end and if it ain't then it ain't the end , I don't know what will happen but I hope someday I will be dad's little pie again , every thing will be fine once again" I say and feel my vision blurring with tears as William squeezes my hand.

I don't know if I'm optimistic or deluded...

"You are forever my daughter though , remember?" He says and I nod and smile as he pats my head , nodding and then puts on his croaky specs and walks towards the registers .

For a brief second , the flash of dad dragging me out as I hiccuped and sobbed comes in my thoughts and I squeeze my eyes.

No !

Don't think about him now!

Don't!

It's a bright morning and you need to be happy!

I huff and put on a smile before I look at william staring at registers with tensed eyes and sigh knowing now he will calculate how much money we spent and how much profit we earned and in this much time and if it means profit or loss .

I raise eyebrows at my whisk and mug and pick up the newspapers .

We practically just yesterday bought the newspapers shelf for newspapers outside our shop !

I purse my lips comically at my old friend which he doesn't sees and walk out to decorate the shelf that has no newspapers on it yet!

It's 9 in the morning !

And William wonders why we have no customers! Who wants to visit a shop this unorganized?

I roll my eyes with a smile and look at the news papers , my eyebrows scrunches as I see all newspapers of one edition .

I said that 40 newspapers of at least four editions should be here , 10 of each , on the outside shelf for customers to choose from and what Cassie ordered is 40 newspapers of 1 edition !

This girl!

Brilliant!

I look at william and pout and he is already looking at me . He chuckles and mouths "not my mistake"

He already knew ? Didn't he?

I shake my head and start putting the papers on the shelf as the soft music from our radio crashes with the horns of busy streets.

As I put the last paper on shelf , I make a mental note to order flowers for decoration of newspaper shelf.

"I am leaving , my students must have been waiting , cassie will come in an hour after finishing her class , you know to call me immediately if anything happens? And you don't have classes today? Right?"

I grin at him and touch his chin "yes my old friend! And no I don't have classes"

I say and he huffs a laughter "do I even look like a professor?" He says making a comical face and I laugh and rush to adjust his tie "yes professor!" I say and he smiles , raising his eyebrows at organized newspapers "from tomorrow we will have 4 editions of news papers" he adds with a chuckle and i pout as he walks out and gets in his car with a nod at me and I nod back before I turn around and blow air on the hanging board saying 'we are open' before I walk in and stop and take a look at my ice cream parlour shop .

Two book shelves kept on opposite sides , just beside large Italian windows that has pink curtains , tables with linen table clothes with menu cards and stools kept in the center and our working countertop stall at one side that has ice cream fridge behind and another glass counter attached to stall, displaying our bakery and cookies to be served with coffee .

It has been two weeks and no matter how much customer we've had yet , our efforts could be seen in the decoration and arrangements of this place .

This place smells like new start with hopes.

A ray of morning sun falls on me through the upper lane of window and I smile and raise my eyebrows at myself.

I walk in and pick a butter chocolate that is kept in check out tray for customers to grab on (for free) , and till now , It's just us munching on our free give out! I giggle at myself and look out to see if someone saw me giggling on my own and thought if I'm mad , but no one is there .

Good for me!

The chocolate melts in my mouth and I nod at myself and walk behind counter.

My day at my shop begins now

Two weeks later

Zander

My footfalls echoes in the hallways as I stride through the halls , puffing out my cigarette as I enter dad's room.

"Come! son , I was waiting for you" He says, looking up at me and then he closes his file and I nod as I enter and drag a chair to sit in ,looking at the clock , it's been four hours since I have been at dad's place and I'd leave in an hour after I've heard what dad has to say.

"Any revert from Alrick ?" I ask and cock my eyebrows because why else dad would call me in mid night , not like we sleep at night but still , it has to be something important . Important like our biggest enemy and rival ! Alrick !

"This is 19 years old , Jasmine Brandt , Richard Brandt's daughter and she could become yours if you like"

I cough and look up at him and narrow my eyes.

Well!?

I will need more than that!

"Mine?" I include.

"Yes" he says and meets my eyes adding "For however you like to play with her , consider her a gift from me"

I take another puff of cigarette , absorbing this news, news that a nineteen year old girl is coming to me as a gift from my father.

He has already told me about her two hours ago that she comes to us as payment for unpaid debts with interest that her father owes.

But she'd become mine?

"Though Alrick called only to say we'll see when and how he replies to us for setting his whore house on raid"

I nod and stare at fog of outside window and re analyze all he mentioned .

"If you accept her then you can extract the debt out of her any way you like"

I nod and rotate the paper weight wordlessly as I look up at him and urge him spill more with my eyes because he has used 'if' . "if you don't accept her then we can sell her off and get the money but why would we do that ? There's plenty of interesting ways of making a woman pay a debt! Don't you think son?"

I chuckle at what he's hinting and take another puff of cigarette.

he is about to have the news of the payment arrangement and signature on documents stating the method of payment conveyed to her father and then we will have her - I will !

It implies i could do whatever and however I want with her , she'd be at my mercy without a word !

It does sound nice actually.

'Whatever' means- I could put her on the lanes under one of the procurer .

I could sell her off into the sexual slavery and keep the profits myself , well , sexual slavery or women trading is not what we deal in but we have good contacts in a variety of industries, including those of underworld -"look at her , son and give this girl some thoughts" Dad says breaking my chain of business thoughts from her as he passes me her photo and I take it.

Well Well Well !

Looking at her photo, she'd make me more on the dirty market than the debt her Daddy owes. Way more.!

This is the girl dad is gifting me!

His phone beeps , he checks it and pauses before speaking "Alrick ! Says he'd make us pay sooner than we expect in return of what we did"

I chuckle and nod at Alrick's threat .

We have turned his world upside down , we will see what he could do with his ruined reputation and no resources left , even his whores changed sides at last moment in court and spoke against him! Of course he wants revenge ! When we fuck some one up , we do it bad ! Really bad!

I tilt my face at the picture in my hand and take another puff of cigarette.

I could do so many things with her and make millions or I could keep her for myself.

My cock hardens as I stare at her. straight and soft long light brown hair, big hazel eyes, supple healthy skin, full sultry lips, curvy in right places and soft-looking.

Innocent and deep eyes...she has beautiful eyes. For the first time in life ,a woman's eyes and innocence have caught my attention!

"What is she doing though?" I ask dad and his eyes shines seeing I'm considering her.

"Graduating in 6 months , some time ago she and one of her professor who is also Richard's buddy , opened a small ice cream parlour on rental basis and yesterday he apologized to her and took her back home"

What?

Back home?

"And what does that mean?" I ask and dad nods and narrows his eyes.

"After her mother died of cancer , he's been manipulative and relevantly abusive too , kicked her out of home a while ago and just yesterday took her back again"

And we are keeping eyes on them that hard , well okay !

I could see it's more than just debt to dad!

I nod and my eyes falls on the commission data on the table and I take a look at it.

We receive commissions from all the different types of businesses , all we do is neither all legal nor all illegal and sure it's not all dark business and debts dabbling either.

Our business is spread in different areas with plenty of income streams in a way that the money and commissions flows down to the family bussiness from a variety of areas, like gambling , trading , diamond mines , security , construction, and a variety of retail , drugs and wholesale businesses , all spread in entire city and neighborhood cities, granting us the wealth that makes more wealth .

"The funny part is , he himself hinted at paying with his daughter only he couldn't find the courage to say it directly"

I put down the commission data and look back at him.

What an asshole she's living with ? She accepted his apology ? Does she has any idea what her daddy has in mind for her in return of her forgiveness?

And she went back with him after he kicked her out ?

Well ! Either she's too naive and innocent or too fucking stupid.

"What was her age again?" I ask as I butt my cigarette in ashtray

"19 , this april" my face tilts at his response .

This April!

Zander

She's not even complete nineteen yet ! That explains her naivety and innocence!

And she has opened her shop , well that is impressing about her!

He pushes the file he closed towards me and I see her name written on it.

Throwing him a look I open the file casually to throw a look at it , I'll read later.

The first thing my eyes falls on is her education loan !

Well , she's a debt repayment pay herself and she has loan on herself too!

Nice!

And it doesn't escape my notice that her asshole daddy ain't supporting her through college.

The land line rings and he nods ,grimacing as he sees my eyes on her loan statements.

"Gordon ! My brother"

He says and I flip the file close.

Gordon's a silent partner in eight restaurants, in some hotels, all the nightbars. Some of those nightbars have back room card games; some that deal in big money , one of which requires my presence before morning ticks by.

"Our drugs selling from a week in city by another name ?sugarlullabies?" Dad says and throws me a look.

Well !

Guess who has his death coming ?

Alrick! Of course! Exactly why he's our biggest enemy and rival ! He has a level ! He's of our level!

I smile and pull out my phone and type to Daniel

(ZK : find out who is the owner of sugarlullabies , selling from one week in city)

I nod at dad as he talks to his buddy with stress forming on his forehead because we already have public blames of drugs on us already and this time in taking control back , public cry eruption might get in our way !

But we will handle it within a night!

Drugs and druggies, alcohol and alcoholics, hookers, strippers, bookies, gamblers, public with no stands -they're always gonna be out there. Why shouldn't we profit from it? We have the brains and the brawn and the money !

"Yeah , don't worry , see ya" He hangs with smile and looks up at me "Any guesses?"

I nod with smirk .

Don't we already know ?

"Alrick's already on work , ain't he?" He says and I nod "no one else could dare unless we have some new friend in city" I say and he nods and then lowers his eye and raises eyebrows on her picture that's still in my hand

"So? What do I expect?" He says and I tusk my tongue before speaking

"Why are you letting the guy pay like this? This isn't our style. We don't take women for payment. There's more to it. Spill.!"

Of course we aren't where we are by accepting pussy as payment! We don't do that here!

Dad smiles and shrugs his shoulders before grabbing liquor bottle from side table "want?" He asks and i nod in a no with eyes on him as he makes himself a glass and adds ice by tong from liquor bucket.

He clinks the ice in glass and then speaks in his typical mafia boss style.

"Well son , he did hint but ultimately it was my decision, not his. I mean , Look at her and she's last thing left of worth to him for us to take , plus it is Richard Brandt! My ages old enemy! It seems like he's losing but I know him from ages and it is his way before he throws his dice in! He makes himself look like a loser and reveals himself at the end , we need to deprive him of his resources before he could play with them somehow , including his daughter , she can pay her father's debt however you make her pay and extract the payment"

Well Well!

So it's more like beggar can't be choosers?

Well , from her picture , I would have chosen her but still !

There's more to it that dad ain't spilling and I could sense it.

I like the girl , my cock likes her even more but I need to know the whole story .

Because I have a few questions that ain't sitting well in my gut even though they're morally right but at the end , we can't expect moral righteousness from mafia head like him!

He is few months away from retiring , he sure looks nothing like ready to retire, he's only in his 50's and looks like he's in his 40's , I look at him and narrow my eyes.

He could keep her for himself !

Of course there's more to the story than he's telling!

He has married a girl near jasmine's age two months ago and he believes in enjoying the fruits of his power and hardwork before he ages old.

So what differences her from others?

"What kind of man is he? Giving off his daughter for debts? The debt is a mere amount" I say and shrug.

He's not even running away with his daughter !

Not like we would have let him but still!

"Just how sometimes business works plus apparently he isn't very fatherly to his daughter as you would have already guessed" he says and sips , shrugging like it was no big deal , the way he is looking at me studiously with thoughts covering, I could see that it is a big deal.

"Plus what man would say no to such a piece?"

I nod and shake my head.

I get what he is saying!

This is his way. He is telling me that this girl is mine to do what I wanted but we both know each other well so it had to be like this !

I know better than to outright say no to mafia head and also know that my dad doesn't do gifts ! Its written on his face that he isn't giving her to me as a gift! He's got plans. But my father knows me. He knows better than to tell me what to do outright. When he really wants me to do something, he does this.

"I'll think over her" I response .

Women in my opinion holds the intensity to bring any man down if determined so I don't let women into my life!

They satisfy my desires the way I demand!

I do woman wildly and as roughly as I desire but never one woman twice !

And of course I never did relationships --- didn't want to, didn't need to!

Never had the feel to get serious with any woman till yet!

I have known what women like and it works well for me , they burn for the way I look and they love and fall for the money, the power.

I've had no girlfriends , I've fucked whores and that too never one woman twice, I've been busy all my life , building our businesses , building myself to be able to take over the empire from dad with pride , proving myself to me and him and the entire mafia world.

It's the first time , a woman is getting binded to me , not by society norms but by other way !

And I need to know more about this all before I accept this deal .

I again look at the girl and a smile splits on my face.

Could this little bird handle my rough treatment in bed ?

Could she handle my dominance?

My control ?

Will she agree to all this?

I'm going to enjoy the fun but I need to think through it and access her before I make her step in my world!

"Look my boy , I know you like control in every aspect !business , Don world , in fucking women and in life , she fits perfect as she'd have no alternative than submitting to your control , give this girl a thought"

That is true but he didn't had to spy so much on my sex life.

I fuck rough and hard! Some woman run out in the morning , some try to get in bed again even for free as long as they get Zander king again !

But they don't!

I nod at him and look at her supple skin and perky ass , bigger than average leading up to a perfect dip of waist .

As I look at her one word sits in my mind .

Control.!

Total control.!

I put the picture on table and think of control. I think about controlling the businesses , Don world, being in full control of my life and I can't help but think about controlling this little bird.

It'll be fun !

Dad clears his throat and I cough snatching my attention from her picture !

Fuck ! He didn't had to see me pondering hard on her!

Our eyes meets and he smiles at me , seeing it as his win for whatever he has in mind by giving her to me .

I need to leave!

I nod and speak "I'll look into this matter , check her out"

I speak and stand , he lowers his head and I catch his smile widening with the look I know from childhood "take her file" he adds , smirking.

The look of victory!

Dad and his games!

I nod and take her file before I turn around and storm out of room