Lust Contracts
The Start of Everything
***Back to the Present***
“Listen, I’m tired. Can we discuss this again tomorrow or another day?” I whined.
“Sure…” my mother replied.
“Everything should turn out just as we expected anyways so there’s not much to discuss…” father said with confidence.
“I’m going to my room…” I said softly as I slowly got up from my seat.
My bedroom was on the second floor. It was the same room that I had since the first day that I moved into the house all those years ago. I used that room up until the day that I married George and moved out of the house. Of course, during university I moved out for a bit to live closer to the university but that was about it.
daughter dear! When you wake up, you’ll be a billionaire!” my mother
to see my reaction with my back turned towards them. Without bothering to turn around, I continued on my way to my bedroom. Their sounds of joyous laughter haunted
when they find out the truth. Let’s see who’s going to be faster. Me waking up and telling them or the news report in
the chaos and everything else that was going
bed where I lay down on my stomach, burying my face into the pillow. I closed my eyes and willed for all of this to be just a bad dream. Everything
to my life? I tried my best to do what my parents wanted and look where I ended up because of it. At only
never cried this hard in my life. I cried with a mix of anger and frustration at the cruel hand that fate had dealt me in this life. I cried for all the times I had to follow my parent’s whims just so that they would accept me as their daughter. I cried for my failure of a marriage with George and the fact that he had completely abandoned me to move
be a part of his. However, throughout it all, I never wished for George to pass away and definitely not like this. Even if he used me and sold me, I wished that he was still alive so that I could punish him and make
and I didn’t want to believe it so much so that I started fooling myself that everything was fine. I ignored all the little signs. At first his losses weren’t all too bad and it didn’t impact