"What the hell!"
"Are you trying to tell me that I was sold!"
the dark and quiet room was illuminated with the lights and sounds from the Tv.
Ana stared at it but her mind was busy daydreaming of her prince charming until she heard a knock at her door.
"Honey may I come in?" Her father asked politely
"Yh sure, but what's up with the long face." Ana asked with her tone laced with worry.
"I'm sorry" Ana.
"What the do you mean you are sorry"
"Dad, what are you trying to tell me?"
Ana's voice trembled as she looked at her father.
He then broke the silence by clearing his throat,
He didn't really seem like he cared about his daughter's reaction, he hesitated before talking but then he said it.
"Ana you're getting married in two days."
Ana blinked, thinking she hadn't heard correctly.
"what do you mean, two days?
"To who?." She asked politely
Unanswered questions filled Ana's mind, but she remained silent even as she felt her heart shatter into a million pieces.
Micheal fixed his gaze on the floor and continued.
"When your mum was still pregnant with you, things were really hard at the time so I had to borrow some money from someone and I promised to pay back" Micheal said.
"But when your mum went into labor with you, I was told she had to do surgery because you flipped in her womb. So once again I had to borrow more money, and well your mum still died"
micheal stopped and began letting out silent sobs.
"Go on father am listening" Ana uttered trying not to cry as well.
"so as time went by I got to know that he was a very dangerous person, and he will make sure you paid with your life if you owed him, or if you have something he likes he would take that instead. I'm so sorry honey I didn't wish for this sort of thing to happen."
"What's his name?" Ana asked.
"Jackson Gonzalez" micheal replied.
Just the name sent a chills down her spine.
She had heard of jackson Gonzalez before,
He was a fourty year old with good looks, he was extremely attractive and all the ladies wanted to be with him.
Jackson was a businessman with a reputation built on crushed competitors and unspoken rumors.
No one really knew him but everyone feared him.He was a trillionare and his pictures where all over magazines as top most richest men in New Yorkcity.
"It doesn't mean he'll accept me as his wife dad, More likely he will treat me as nothing more than a servant considering I was just offered as payment for a long standing debt" Ana exclaimed bitterly.
Her heart sank at the thought of her future in his household.
She dreamed of being treated like a princess, but now she could already daydream her life being reduced to scrubbing floors and receiving cold glances instead of affection.
Ana's world had felt as if it had burnt down and her eyes swell from crying.
If you would want to pay me back, this is the least you can do for me" Micheal uttered before going.
Ana was a very beautiful girl from a very poor background. She was the only daughter of her parents, but sadly her mother rose died immediately after giving birth to the poor girl.
ever since then her father single handedly took care of her even if he sometimes felt that she was the reason why the love of his life died in the first place.
The ground beneath her seemed to fall away
She layed on the cold tiles biting through her skin.
"my own father sold me" she whispered her voice shaking.
Ana was already in love with someone else, Jason.
"How am I going to tell Jason that I am supposed to get married in two days" Ana murmured to herself as she sat on the floor beside her bed.
"I will never forgive my father for putting me in such a situation" she uttered bitterly once more.
Meanwhile Micheal sat on the couch downstairs, while he used his right hand to stroke his forehead.
"He could recall that day perfectly, when jackson threatened his life.
"I'm sorry but that money, Jackson even if I were to work for you for eternity I won't be able to pay back still" Micheal uttered, his voice was shaky.
"I give you just two days and if you don't pay me my money I promise to have your head in my hands" Jackson threatened and micheal went down on his knees to beg.
"Please give me another condition i beg you, anything else from money I promise I will do it please" he pleaded."Anything else you say, hmm" Jackson stands up and began to stroke his chin."Well I heard you had a daughter, I want her and I will get married two her in two days, and the both of you are going to make sure of that.
it broke his heart to watch her go this way, but he had no choice. Jackson was just like a mafia, no one wanted to be on his bad side.
"Dad!," someone called out and snapped Michael from his flashback of thoughts, but Nobody was there he was just hearing things.
Just then Ana came downstairs and he watched her as she made her way to the kitchen.
She comes out with a glass of water in her hands then makes her way back upstairs without uttering even a single word to him.
"Honey, please come" micheal requested with a hopeful smile.
Ana comes back down and comes to sit next to her father.
"Honey, I know you are angry but pl..." mic uttered before he got interrupted. "What do you mean dad, why won't I be angry you basically gave me to someone way older than me"
"I am supposed to get married in two day, and to someone I have never had an encounter with" Ana says
"We all know what's gonna happen to me but it's fine, Nobody really cares about me!" Ana announced.
"I just want to go to my room, I can't take any of this" Ana exclaimed before running upstairs.
A few hours later, Ana had calmed down a little but it still felt as if she had a thorn in her heart.
her phone rang and it was Jason.
"Hello jason," she uttered, her voice low and steady.
"Hey beautiful, I hope you're okay" he asked.
"Of course I am, why will you say that but I have to tell you something and it's urgent."
She began, her voice laced with fear and worry.
Jason wasn't living too far from his girlfriends home,He lived just a few blocks away.
"Baby, just tell m..." he uttered before being interrupted by a familiar voice Ana had heard before."Come on get off that phone" a lady murmured.
"Baby, you know i told you that am in another city and i will be back tomorrow and I will call you back later okay" Jason uttered before cutting the call on her.
Ana was then left alone confused and oblivious of what to do next.
"That voice, could that be a girl or a guy?No, no, no it can't be" Ana said to herself in disbelief.
Ana had already planned to convince Jason inorder for them to run away together.
"I guess when he gets back tomorow we will go away from this place."
Her mind was too clogged up with thoughts so she decided to walk down the empty streets.
She walked down blocks until she reached Jason's, and she knew that he stayed alone.
But for some reason the lights where on.
"No he won't lie to me, maybe he left his friends to stay at his place" she uttered
She then walked pass his house, but she found herself going back and going towards the direction of his doorstep.
She rang the bell but there was no reply, but then she began knocking heavily until the door was opened.
"Ohh my days!"