It's Payback Time Novels & Stories

The sun is setting and it basking the city in its glorious golden glow. A quick glance at the time updated me on how late it is. After a series of meetings today I spent the rest of the day behind a mountain of files. "Ggggrrhh" The deskphone let out a shrill cry, jolting me back to reality. "Yeah?" I called into the phone bored. "Sir?" "what do you have to say?" I asked impatiently but a bad intuition creeps up on my mind. The person on the other end is the special bodyguard I assign to watch over Grace.

"You said you're moving right, that's not a problem. Ah-ah, let me finish what I'm saying. I know that right now, you're indefinitely upset and angry and you feel like they're making a huge mistake taking us away from each other but it might not be so. I know I know I'm going to miss you a whole lot but it's a good thing. See, you'll make new friends when you go to your new school and everyone is going to love you because you are tea. You're a very amazing girl and everyone is going to love you, everyone is going to want to be your friend but we will still be bestest friends. You're going to have your parents with you and I know you hate them right now but you'll find yourself loving them al

Then, a large, terrifying black shadow appeared that was groaning in pain and finally vanished with the golden light. After that, things returned to normal. Khanza didn't moan in pain anymore, but instead, she fell unconscious. With ease, Kenzo lifted Khanza's body and carried her. He stared at the transparent figure still around him and Khanza. A figure that is increasingly smiling. "Father...." "My son, Ksatria. Thank you for coming to warn Me and Khanza in this life about Dharma’s attack, son. " Kenzo looked down at Khanza and kissed her forehead. “The true power of Father and Mother in this life has not fully returned. Kenzo and Khanza in the present must re

The sheer delight and relief at getting a second chance at life welled in me, but I had no time to bask in the feeling. Lowering my head to check the branded watch on my wrist, I noticed that it was 2:00 pm now, which meant I had two hours before the victim's family killed me. At that moment, just like in my previous life, Shannon called me. "Rina, are you back from your work trip?" As I listened to her saccharine-sweet voice, I had to suppress the rage that rose in me so that she wouldn't realize something was off. "I just got home. What's up?"

I paused, watching their expressions turn dark, and continued, "Also, I remember the repayment term written on the loan contracts was six months. In six months, the debt collectors will come knocking. I suggest you start preparing early. You wouldn't want to end up with nowhere to hide." "You… You ungrateful wretch!" Mom yelled, trembling with fury as she jabbed her finger at me. "We raised you all these years, and now you don't even care whether we live or die!" Mable chimed in, fanning the flames. "You've gone too far, Talia! Mom and Dad worked so hard to raise you, and now that you've made something of yourself, you want to wash your hands of us? Life doesn't work that way!"

"My company's about to go pre-IPO. If you apologize, I MIGHT throw you a janitor gig. Beats bottle hunting—and hey, it even comes with a little dignity." Rebecca clung tighter. "You're too kind. Some people just miss their moment. Not me—I stayed, and watched you rise."

Yeah I was exaggerating a little but in todays worth it was 10,000 dollars. His fingers hovered over the bill before he finally picked it up—like it might burn him if he wasn’t careful. “That dollar,” I said, “is worth more than every paycheck you’ve ever earned via legal end. And it’s just the start.” Tomas let out a breath. A slow, almost reverent exhale. “You're not just here for revenge,” he said. I smiled without warmth. “No, Tomas. I’m here for reckoning.”

Ten Years Later – Manhattan, New York Her heels made a steady, repeating sound on the marble floor, like a ticking clock. Natalia Cruz didn’t stop or hesitate, even when the security guard at Carrington Global looked up with surprise. Of course, he recognized her name on the visitor list—after all, she was a well-known lawyer this year. But what he didn’t know, what no one here knew, was that she wasn’t just here for justice. She had unfinished business. And a secret she’d kept hidden for ten years.

My tongue and the teeth she knocked out might never fully recover. She had turned me into this broken mess. And now, she shirked all responsibility by claiming that she didn't know I was Shawn's mother. On top of that, she expected me to forgive with just one insincere apology. How could she be so audacious? Sensing my hostility, Shawn quickly stepped in and said, "Mom, Celine has already apologized. Didn't you always say that admitting one's mistakes is the first step to redemption? "And besides, I've been pursuing Celine for two years. She only acted this way because she thought I cheated. She didn't mean to hurt you. "These injuries will heal in time. Please don't hold this against her, M

Call tonight? I typed back: Yes. Seven. Tell me everything. A response almost immediately: Everything is a lot. I have time. A pause. Then: I know. That's one of the things I love about you. I set the phone down and sat with that for a moment. The restitution framework had processed its fourth wave of disbursements in July.