THE SOUND

Tomorrow, we are cashing out big,”

Sophia told her sister Tonia with excitement and anticipation. Her sister, Tonia, could feel her excitement and was eager to hear the news. Sophia had been working hard for years to build her business and she was finally seeing the fruits of her labor. She had opened a luxury fashion boutique that sold high end designer pieces. She got a loan from an old friend to get the business started and it took her three years to build her clientele and four years to pay back the loan.

Sophia had faced a few challenges along the way. One of the biggest challenges she faced was when her accountant brought embezzlement to her attention. Someone was embezzling her money from the store. It was a large sum of money, to the tune of eight thousand dollars, and Sophia was devastated. She soon found out that the culprit was the store manager, Lucia, a young twenty eight year old from the Bahamas. It quickly became clear that Lucia had a taste for the finer things in life, and had become greedy.

But Sophia was not one to take things lying down. When it came to her money and her business, she was a woman of action. She had a few miscreants on her payroll who would take care of any debtors who failed to pay up. As it turned out, Lucia suffered the same fate as many of the debtors- she was picked up at a night club by one of the miscreants…