Payback
Copyright 2012 by Nicky Sasso
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Payback
My wife was not a very beautiful woman, but a country girl who simply glowed with innocent inner beauty. Then she was 23 years old. She was 5’9’’, had a tiny waist, middle-sized breasts, brown hair, full lips, and her legs were amazing. They were long and perfectly shaped. I called them endless legs. Whenever she smiled, she would disarm me. She was always immaculately clean. I called her Angel. She always had patience for me and my occasional frustrations, until I started gambling. She warned me not to do it, because it would bring us bad luck.
And why did I gamble? Well, simply because I was a gambling addict. It became a part of me. I thought gambling on slot machines would help me improve my financial situation. It started well. Until the day when I spent all my money and tried to return it by playing with loaned money. I thought I would be able to return my money, but I kept sinking lower and lower. After an all evening of gambling, my debt was 25,000 dollars! Not until I sank completely was the situation clear to me. I went home and slept well. I did not feel when my wife got up. When I woke up, she was sitting in the chair opposite to bed. She was looking at me with her big green-blue eyes full of tears.
- “What have you done, wretch? I went to town and heard you lost all your money last light. You even owe a lot of money! Where can we get that money? You want our house to be taken away from us because of 25,000 dollars, so that we become homeless people? Come on, genius. Do something now! Be a man!”
I did something. I went to the owner of slot machines, whose name was Christopher, and asked him to let me pay back the debt in installments. I was willing to pay it back with interest. I just did not have the money at the time. But he said: