Naked Love

“Mr Lance, you've got a letter”.

“Dear Lance,

It's been weeks since you got in contact with me. You still have an unpaid sixty four percent of the money I lent you and it's just two hundred days left as it is on the contract. I hope I get my money before then else you know what I can do. ”

ANDRE FEDERICO.

Deep in thought, worried and devastated , the 54 year old father to Vanessa and Trey Warner had to seek out a way to pay up the huge sum of money he had borrowed from an Italian Billionaire Andre Federico.

Two weeks later, another letter of reminder was sent to Lance but this time it got to Vanessa. She was so scared ,sad and angry her Father didn't let her know all this. Things were hard especially since their mom was lost in a tragic accident traveling home from a work trip. Lance who was forced to retire due to his health conditions couldn't afford to give his kids the right education ,fend enough for his family and even run a business that he had to go on a loan.

“How are we going to pay off all this money in just less than two hundred days?” Vanessa asked.

“You could have told me I would have opted to skip college and have a job for now , I couldn't even complete college. We spent a lot on your health, feeding, bills here and there ” she said in a pessimistic tone.

“I did what i felt was best at the moment for us” Mr Lance cried out coughing repeatedly. I am sorry i hadn't inform you earlier. I am going to die anyway its not like my health condition is getting better, the man doesn't know you or any of my family members...Let him come for me. I still have some money left, you and Miles can move out of the town get married and start your new life, you are going to take Trey along also till he is man enough to live on his own and have a family, you both have my blessings.”

“No no no, we are not doing that i can not leave you alone in this, i understand you did this for us, i have to in one way help raise some of them money”.

“You do what i say and move out of this town or you would end up killed and wasted with me” answered Lance. They went on exchanging words of regret and disappointment leaving Trey so confused he slammed the door and said he was going to move into his friends place till they conflict was over. This brought a moment of quiet between Vanessa and her father. Swinging her arms and making murmuring movements was only what she could do in the room. Vanessa was out at night with her high school lover Miles Coleman. They have been dating since the tenth grade of high school and now on the verge of marriage but everything was about to cut short.

“Girl, girl...we have been here for twenty minutes and you haven't said a word, is everything okay?” a worried Miles asked. He pondered deeply, is everything okay with her or did I hurt her?.

She answered with tears in her ears and a tone with just pure bitterness “We are about to lose our lives, they are going to kill us”

Now more scared and worried in a loud shaky tone Miles asked,

”Who?”

“Why are they after your lives?”

“It's my father, he did it for us and now we are in a big mess. Having lost every bit of comfort in him, Miles asked Vanessa to at least leave the restaurant with him so they could go home and talk. She agreed to go with him for the night and spend the night there with him. After a thirty seven minutes drive to his house, Miles told Vanessa to get to bed and later when she's up they would talk and she did so, it was the first time she got to sleep in his house , she always has had to go home earlier to cook for her dad and brother. Miles already called Lance and informed him Vanessa would be staying for the night.

Preparing her favorite coffee, Vanessa went on to Miles hugged him from behind before taking a sip off the mug.