INDEBTED

CHAPTER 30: INDEBTED

It was Mrs. Roswell’s loud shriek that woke up Grace from her room.

With worry laced face, she rushes out only to find her mother trying to stop a few men from taking everything inside their house.

“Y-you can’t do this to me! How dare you treated us like we’re some pieces of sheet?!” Mrs. Roswell hollered.

She was far from the sophisticated Roswell, who would eye those who are beneath her. Her hair is tangle, barefooted as she stood there with rage. Mrs. Roswell was clearly a mess after the arrest of her husband, and now this.

Grace worriedly take her steps towards her mother, “What’s happening, Ma?”

Even she was tired with all of it.

“These bastards are telling us that we have some debt, when clearly we don’t!” She snapped.

That’s when they both heard a voice coming to their direction.

“Why don’t you ask your husband, Mrs. Roswell then?”

The two lifted their eyes.

They were meet by an old man, whose neck and arms are both covered with gold, necklaces an