Debt

Kitttanah Love clicked the mouse to send the email. Another slander lawsuit filed by the Evens estate against another tabloid magazine. This was the fifth one this month. Couple that with a pre-nup agreement, estate planning for the wealthy, Kit was fed up with handling the personal needs of rich assholes that paid lawyers to take care of their dirty laundry. This was not what she had gone to medical and business school for. All she had wanted to do was work with patients and the innocents that needed help as a high class doctor; not become a frigid secretary using her high brain power to figure out loop holes so those with money didn't have to play by the same rules. How did she get into this mess!

“Gee Kit, for a person with an amazing IQ you are really stupid.” She scolded herself.

Oh yes. It was 4 months ago when Shaang had entered her life again. She had arrived at the hospital for her usual morning visit to check on her father. He had slipped and fallen of a balcony at work resulting in some very expensive back surgery. The orthopedic surgeon had said he would be back to normal. Eventually. He still had a lot of physical therapy ahead of him. Of course the library he worked at didn't have insurance and on top of that, he didn't have any disability insurance. Kit had been filling in at her father's job, working nights, while going to school during the day. It was the last semester before she would become a real Doctor. Once she got that degree, she could quit being a librarian and work as a real doctor at a hospital that offered real benefits.

Those plans had come crashing to an end last week when the school informed her that they were revoking her scholarship as her grade had slipped. She knew that last report she forgot about would bite her in the ass sooner or later. Her scholarship package required her to maintain a 4.0 average. Now the school was sending her a bill for over $45,000 or withholding her degree. But this was Kit, she was going to pull through one way or another.

As she exited the elevator on her father's floor, the floor nurse who usually waved a cheery hand at her quickly stopped her with a serious face.

"I'm sorry Ms. Love, but we will be discharging your father tomorrow. We didn't realize he doesn't have insurance."

"But what about the physical therapy?"

"Since it's not life threatening, we can't really offer that at this moment, unless you can come up with some other financing option." She tried to offer a pathetic little smile. "And by the way, the hospital will be sending you a bill for his current expenses. I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but last time I saw a bill for this type of surgery, it was way over $150,000."

Things could not get any worst. She couldn't let her father suffer as an invalid. That's when she decided to do the unthinkable. Ask a certain loan shark for a loan.

She knew Paine, Lily, or even Aiden would have given her the money without question, but they had their own problems to deal with and she didn't want to owe them as they would never take the money back from her. Shaang, on the other hand, would make a deal to benefit himself and figure out a profitable way for her to pay him back. She just hadn't thought he would demand that she work for him.

Of course working for the Evens empire had its benefits. Her father was getting the best care possible, and she was paying off that school and medical bill. But the price of her soul was too high. In the past 4 months, she had developed a dark aura that even rivaled Shaang's.

"Ms. Love, the boss wanted me to give you this. He said it was top priority." Shaang's right hand man, Tido, smiled at Kit as he handed her a folder. Opening the folder, Kit quickly glanced through it as a dark aura rose above her bringing amusement to the messenger. The irate woman got up from her chair and stormed towards Shaang's office.