Debt Of Time Fanfiction Novels & Stories

Busy means I don't think about gold eyes or whispered promises or the way he looked at me that morning like I was something he needed to scrub off his record. My phone buzzes in my apron pocket. Calendar reminder. Payment due: The Hollow. $800. Right. That. The debt's been my shadow since I was twelve. Mom and Dad's hospital bills, insurance gaps, money borrowed from people who don't ask how old you are, just whether you can pay. Eleven years of interest piling on interest. The principal hasn't budged. I've got six hundred in my account. Two hundred short. Again. They'll come. They always do.

My body ached, a tight feeling of exhaustion wrapped around my spine, it was sharp and unforgiving, a signature feeling that was now a part of my existence. But none of that weighed as heavily as the question that kept looping in my mind like a broken record I couldn’t get rid of. Why would Damon pay out such a chunk of my debt? Okay, technically, it was Aiden’s debt and I really had to start calling it that. The money wasn’t small and no one just gave away that much money. Especially not someone like Damon, he was Alpha and even though he had his own money, a lot of what he did was recorded.

He who casts the spell will owe. Dante let out a low whistle. “That’s… not scary at all.” Kael swallowed and continued. “The debt is blind. You don’t know what it wants until it comes to collect." Alpha ran his fingers through his hair, and frustration filled his face again. "It could be tomorrow. It could be fifty years. It could also be now. Could be your...” Alpha cut him off. "Stop... there's no way I'm letting you do that... this is so wrong."

I held my forehead gently with my palm, my head panging with an ache. I reached for my phone to check the time, only for a message to pop up from an unknown number. My heart sank in grieve as I read the text. “Our breakup doesn’t cancel your debt. You owe me, and you must pay me back. If you don’t, I will spill.” From Tyler. The remembrance of the debt I had acquired over the years came haunting me again. Every event, from my father’s death up until where I am now, was enough reason to forget.

Not only to regain a sense of independence but also because I had debts to repay. My father’s debts. The thought of them sent a familiar wave of frustration crashing over me. I had spent countless nights calculating how long it would take to pay off what he owed Alex. Even if Alex agreed to let me work, it would take me years to pay back the mountain of debt my father had accumulated. Ten years, at least, if I was lucky. Ten years of scrimping and saving. Ten years of trying to clear off my father’s debt and his mistake. The absurdity of it all made my chest tighten. How could my father have let things spiral so far out of control? How could he not have looked back to check on me after he le

“He is talking this way because I am owing him a few bucks. Look, Lesley. I have put all my time and energy in paying you back your money. Stop doing this.” “Your debt to me can’t be measured in money, man and you know it.” “What the fuck are both of you talking about?”

"We evolve the very concept of debt until it becomes something else." Forty-three minutes remained. Forty-three minutes to redefine fundamental concepts of obligation and payment. The chain pulsed around me, showing infinite ways this could end. In most of them, I disappeared into the Void forever. But in a few, just a few, something unprecedented happened. Time to make those few possibilities real.

At least I wouldn't have to witness their happy family of four and smell that nauseating mixture of scents. Memories flooded back like an uncontrolled tide. Alex and I had met when we were nobody special. I had supported him through his journey from an unknown programmer to a leading figure in the field of AI. For ten years, we had been the soulmates everyone in our circle envied. The first time, he was drugged by a business rival and slept with Brooke, who was just an intern then. He called me immediately, his voice shaking. "Em, I was set up! I swear on my integrity that this was the only time! I've handled everything cleanly. She'll never appear before us again!"

“Zinnia was such a good kid. She always studied until the last minute before going back to the dorm. Once I mentioned I was hungry, and she gave me her boxed meal without a word. “She had a heart condition. I took her to the hospital several times. She only had an old flip phone and couldn’t transfer money, so she paid me back with cash she earned herself. “And you call her a liar? You killed her!” Mom stumbled, her mind growing more and more muddled.

Brandon’s expression fell as he said coldly, “Aspen has to give me an explanation today! She can’t just blow me off like this! I was being generous to her, and this is how she’s repaying me!” The assistant looked at Brandon and shook his head. Then, he sighed. There was nothing else to say. At midnight, all guests and friends started to leave. I yawned and kissed Samuel. “I’m too tired, let’s have an early night in, alright?” “Sure, anything you want.” My former nemesis that used to be the bane of my existence was staring at me lovingly. No one knew that Samuel was in love with me for seven years. His love did not disappear all those years.