"As long as your wife spends ten nights with Mr. Pool, the 100,000 dollars you owe Mr. Pool will be written off."
Several thugs blocked the doorway to their bare home, laughing sinisterly and terrifyingly. One of them even whipped the father occasionally, who cried out in pain and kept saying, "Alright, alright, I'll pay, I'll pay."
The mother had already been sickened by the father's actions, and they didn't even have enough money to go to the hospital. Ave Carlisle didn't have enough money to buy medicine, but a kind auntie at the pharmacy pitied their situation and sold her the anti-inflammatory medicine at a discount. Ave rushed home with the medicine to give to her mother, only to witness this scene.
She stood at the doorway, petrified and unsure what to do.
Then she saw the thugs dragging her mother out of the house, one of them jeering, "Hey, be careful there, be careful, serve us well. For these ten days, she's our queen."
