Ordeal by Cheque by Brittany Martin

     A rich man named Laurence Exeter the first’s wife gave birth to a little baby boy. He bought his little son everything he could ever want and need.He also paid the doctor who helped his wife give birth to the baby.He gave his son his namesake of Lauernce.When he was 3Laurence Sr. sent his son to a nice private school for boys.He did great in private  school so he bought him a new bike. However when he got older, his sweet attitude started to change. His mother didn’t know what to do with him. So his father sent him to military school.Laurence felt like his son was too spoiled so he decided to spoil himself. He bought himself a beautiful black cadillac. Laurence Jr. got jealous and decided to steal his car to impress girls. While driving pass a gang of groupies, he lost track of the road and crashed his dad’s car. Laurence Sr. was furious,but paid for the car to be fixed anyway.
    Laurence Jr. got excepted into Standford University. Laurence Sr. was so proud of his son that he paid for his son’s entire tutition and books. While in college, he met a girl named Daisy Windsor. They thought they were in love, until he found out she was pregnant. He immidately told his father to send him the money to have and abortion. After that he never spoke to her again. To eacape the drama with his son,Laurence Sr. bought a huge boat and took a tripto France. He put money into a french bakn account so that he’d be rich there too. While in France, he became interested in a pretty french translator. He buys her flowers to win her over and it worked. The two began to date and  they quickly fell in love.Not long after dating, he asked his lady love to move in with him. He pays a fancy decorator to decorate his entire house the way she wants it.
    After a few months of  dating, he finally asks the girl to marry him. Right after the wedding was over, they went to Hawaii for their honeymoon.When his son turned 21, he gave him is inheritance money. Right after that, he rented a hotel room and filled it with flowers and chocolates.Laurence Exeter also proposed to a girl and he gives her everything from a beautiful wedding dress to lingerie for the honeymoon. In order to pay for all of the things his wife wanted, he borrowed money from a n Italian gang member named Tony Spagoni. Tony told Laurence that he was to pat him back with intrest or they would kill him. He and his wife did not get along so well. He tried to buy her stuff to make her happy, but it didn’t work. She decides to leave him anyway and takes 50 thousand from him. Laurence had to pay thousands of dollars to buy attorneys to keep his soon -to –be ex-wife from taking all of his inheritance. He lost the court case and had to pay his ex 5 thousand dollars. He tried to arrange a deal with her but it didn’t work so he had to continue to pay lawyers to defend himself. Tony Spagoni came to Laurence to collect the debt he owed him. Laurence gave him all he could, but Tony didn’t accepted it. He sent his gang members to kill Laurence Jr. at once. While in his office trying to pay off his little bit of debt, the gang invaded his office and shot Jr. 3 times in the chest. Laurence Sr. paid the same hospital and the same doctor who gave birth to him, but this time it was for a sadder reason.Jr. died at only27. He will be missed…..