Contract Marriage

I am Mia Anderson I am 27 years old I am single I have fair skin, medium length light brown hair and my eyes colour is green. I only love two things in my life one my family (mother and sister ) and second my job and there is someone whom I hate but still, I have to see his face and that is my father I hate him because most of the time he is drunk or he is gambling. Today when my dad came home he was not drunk but something didn’t look right he came home without getting drunk wow that was something new "I am in debt" dad said after which I got angry but what he said was not new this has been his habit we were rich. But everything got ruined when one of dad's friend said him to invest money somewhere when dad invested the money he lost the money and after that he slowly slowly lost his business and then he started to drink and gamble with the money which I give mom for household but he always knew that I can’t give him too much money so he always plays in limit sometimes I feel like throwing him out of the house so that we all can live in peace but I can't throw him out of the house because of mom. After hearing him I got angry but I had to control myself because of mom "I was gambling today and I didn’t knew that I" dad said "how much is the money" I asked while opening my purse "$500,000" he said After listening to the amount I was shocked and didn’t know what to say because the amount he needed to pay the debt was $500,000, not $50 or something I was shocked."What you do realize that its a big amount" I said that to him in an anger tone "Mia I didn't knew how the amount got this much" dad said that "what the hell how am I going to pay this big amount even if I do two jobs still I will not be about to pay" just when I ended shouting we heard a loud bang on the front door and I felt like my heart was going to come out. "It must be those people they must have come to take the money but I have nothing," dad said "because of you now we are in a big problem you could have thought about Mary (youngest sister ) she is young what if she sees all this," I asked him in an angry tone. I went to open the door so I could talk to them and ask them to give me some days so that I can pay them but the moment I opened the door four men were standing at the door. They push me to one side and came inside the home. They started to search the house, they started from the living room the goons were checking all the drawers to see if they would find any jewelry or some money but they don't know that there is nothing at home I tried to stop them but they were not listening. Then I told them "can you please stop searching and listen to me," I said in a pleading tone "what," one of the goon said "I will pay you just wait for some days so that I can arrange the money" he didn't say anything and again started to search the house, two of the goons went to mom and dad's room to search. They didn’t listen to me and nothing was coming in my brain how should I stop them think, think just then I took out my phone and warned them that "I will call the police" All four goons stopped and suddenly one of the men came to me and said "we want the money that your dad took from us give us that and we will leave from here" one of the goon said and he was drunk and he had a big scar on his face that made him look scarier which was making me scared "just give me some days to arrange money" I pleaded them "no I will not give you any more time" then we all heard footsteps sound coming from the stairs Oh no it can't be her please god and we all turned to look at the stairs and saw that Mary was coming down. I saw one of the man smirking and looking at Mary "why are you here go to your room" I shouted at Mary as I was scared what if they did something to her I don't want her to get hurt in all this. She didn't move from her place why is she so slow I thought just then one of the men went towards Mary I was going to stop him but one of the goon hold me and the other two hold mom and dad. One of the goon went towards Mary dragged her with him outside the house and I kept shouting "leave me where are you taking her leave her I said that I will pay you right then why are you taking my sister" the man who was dragging Mary said "if you and your family tried to run without paying my money then" he didn`t say further just made us understand what he can do to her. He made Mary sit in the backseat of the car Mary kept crying and telling him "don’t take me mom, dad Mia save me" she shouted that the car window was open I looked at her and she was looking at me with tears in her eye, her eyes were telling me to save her but I couldn't do anything "Mary I wouldn't let anything happen to you ok just trust me" I said to her and my eyes were filled with tears "you trust me right" I said to her and she nodded her head in yes. The goons who were holding me, mom and dad left us they sat inside the car and took Mary I was so shocked that for a moment I didn’t understand what to do. I started to think about how will I pay the debt. I’ll never be able to pay off this debt with my normal job. Mom sat on the sofa and started to cry. She was crying and sobbing I went and sat beside mom "don't worry I won't let anything happen to Mary I promise I will find a way just wait here" I was consoling mom when dad sat on the sofa and said "why don’t you go and ask help from your boss" he said I was shocked how dare him to say that I cannot just go and ask my boss to help me especially when it's only been two months since I became his Secretary "I advice you to be quiet and keep your suggestions to yourself we are in this mess because of you because of you they took Mary so I am telling you be quiet" I said that to him in an anger tone "why should I be quiet I will speak because Mary is my daughter" he said I was going to answer him but suddenly we heard the ringing of the phone it was dad's phone he picked up but he didn’t say anything and the phone call ended "who was it" mom asked in a worried tone "the men who took Mary dad said "what were they saying" I asked him in a tensed tone "they told they need the money in 24 hours or else they are going to kill Mary" dad and I was shocked after hearing that. By hearing this mom cried even more "because of you, just because of you we are in this mess. It's all because of your addiction to alcohol and gambling habit that you're under debt and that they took Mary away and I have to pay the debt" I said to dad. Mom from behind said to me "Mia this not the time to fight we need to arrange the money" mom told me "yes mom I know that that I need to arrange money I will see what I can do" I left my home I was thinking to call my friends to ask for help but if they didn't help me then definitely I will have to ask for help from my boss.