WHY DO YOU NEED MONEY?

I stood in a five-star hotel room, feeling immensely out of place in the luxurious surroundings. It’s surprising how much power and money can get you because the moment I accepted his deal, I was released, and became a free woman. I could not afford to rot in that cell any second, who knows what Vivian might do to my mother once she hears of my arrest, because then I’ll be out of her reach. I know I should probably be home now, and Vivian was not going to take my absence lightly—but I could deal with Vivian barely, like I had been doing for years. And as for Ethan, him I could not handle. I cannot afford to make him angry or go back on my words by denying his requests for my body. I signed the contract immediately the cuffs were unclasped from my wrist. He already had them drawn earlier, and they stated that ‘my body belonged to him, whenever he wanted, and however he wanted, till he was tired of me.’ He drove me out of the prison to this hotel after I was set free, and locked me in hi