A Life Debt Repaid Novels & Stories

" The words kept on ringing in Sofie's ears and she slowly dropped to her knees. Her whole life has been filled with nothing but pain and misery, her dad passed away a year ago, leaving her with the responsibility of paying the huge debts he was owing before he passed away. She had to work two part-time jobs to pay off their debt and other expenses, but the money she earns is not even enough and they're still in so much debt. "Why me all the time! This is too much on me!" She cried loudly as she stared at the ceiling with tears in her eyes.

43 thousand dollars in total. "Pay me back first, then we can talk." I heard a sharp intake of breath, then her voice exploded. "Are you trying to kill me? My parents are on their deathbed, and all you care about is money?" "You forced my hand," I said, tone unchanged. "Debts must be repaid. You have three days. Otherwise, I'll see you in court." I hung up. Then, I blocked every single member of the Caldwell family. Dad sat beside me the entire time, gripping my hand. "Are you really going through with this?"

She'd played that card for three years and never once lost the hand. But this time, Cain looked down at the hand clutching his sleeve. He looked a long time. Then he lifted his own hand and, gently but with absolute finality, peeled her fingers off his sleeve one by one. “That blade. The life-debt. I'll remember it,” he said, his voice cold to the bone. “You want comfort, land, a lifetime free of want, I'll give you all of it. A life-debt is a life-debt.”

Before graduating from college, I teamed up with a few classmates on a project and earned several hundred thousand dollars, which was intended as our startup fund. In my previous life, instead of giving them the startup fund, I agreed to owe them the money. Unexpectedly, the debt snowballed until it eventually exceeded ten million dollars. That was why I kept paying it right up until I was 38 years old. To make them drop their guard, I called up my classmates and asked them to lend me the startup fund first. After receiving the money, I transferred it all to Mom. Only then did Mom nod in satisfaction. "That's more like it. If there's anything you want to buy later on, just let us know. As lo

Every late-night call from debt collectors, every time she watched her mother cry in the kitchen, every time her father stared at the floor like a broken man — it all boiled up inside her now, aimed straight at the bastard responsible. Kaelan stood slowly, all six-foot-three of him towering over the desk. His tailored black suit fit him like a second skin, emphasizing the broad shoulders and the quiet power that made the air in the office feel thinner. “Your father borrowed millions he couldn’t repay. Gambling. Bad deals. Desperation. The Voss Empire didn’t create his problems. We simply ended up holding the debt.”

The debt trap laid by that authoritative CEO had now mercilessly locked her into a lifetime of obligation. “How long... how long will it take before all my debts to Mr. Arga are finally paid off?” Alya whispered into the silence of the dimly lit room. “How much longer must I work? Or do I have to surrender my entire life to that dangerous man?”

I didn't appreciate such a lifestyle at all. However, I was enjoying my money. My mom's surgery was going to be done in the next week, and I was planning to move to a bigger and more comfortable house. But the only issue was that I had to pay my father's debts from ten to twenty years ago. He had owed a lot of money as a result of his company's bankruptcy, and it cost millions of dollars. And whenever I thought the debt was about to end, another one kept coming over and over again. A costly one. Also, I was able to save some money for Liam's admission into a private and well established school that he'd attended the next year, when he would turn five. So that was another reason I appreciated

Her parents took 7 million as loans and put their own savings as 3 million for that boys operation and the operation got successful. But before they could start to collect money for payback. God took their life. Luna decided to take a charge to pay this debt and she did. She worked like a sleepless ghost for 3 years but she was only able to pay 1 million. She never did anything that is wrong to her. She worked and worked but never did any sin to collect money. But now it seems to be impossible that this orphanage gonna be saved because this time she has a feeling that no one can save her brother's last property.

After Lady Wilson and Christopher lashed out at one another, there was an irreparable crack left in both their hearts. The old lady finally decided to only keep fifty thousand dollars to be used as the living expenses for the family of four. After that, she repaid the rest of the money to the two banks. After receiving part of the repayment, the person-in-charge of the debt collection department also gave Lady Wilson a lot of face. He decided to give the Wilson family a breather and he extended the repayment period for the Wilson family to gather more money to repay their debts.

“How much is it?” “It costs more than your life… More than how much you could offer.” “How muc—” “A million dollars. I already lessen your family’s debt by half for making me enjoy your dumb dull life. Only a half and you still have to pay the remaining half, Miss Asmodeus,” the man said. I clenched my fist. I glared at grandpa who just looked away in guilt. You better protect the little guy or else….. I sighed. I wasn’t expecting that the debt would cost that much. All my money was spent on my grandfather’s other benefactors and I have nothing right now but forty thousand dollars! Do they want me to sell my soul just to pay that?!