can get you a light meal, or something nutritious?

bbing her forehead and re

voice came out raspy, l

her forehead. "Almost eleven. You

e times, but he hadn't picked up. Instead, she was caught by reporters at an auction, because he was sending an actress home

he kept caged like a pet. A woman on his payroll had no right to expect love or

phone, and Conrad held it up, hi

hone between his fingers. The cute pink case loo

any updates all night and didn'

iedly, "If you want

n knew him well enough not to argu

porridge arrived. Nancy, who'd looked after

ed in her mouth, cooked to just the right te

ne," sh

? A bird eats more than yo

my grandma's innocent. She's old, and if you cut off her

hree years. Can't we e

ask me that?" Conrad laughed coldly, brushing his finger

u said when you were clinging to

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k th

ed, and with nowhere to go, she had to rely on friends, only to be ridiculed as a washed-up hei

the sudden plunge into poverty and

g all the good things in life. But when darkness came, sh

u. But when you're destitute, you're thrown to the wolves. Her options? Either be sent of

ld men, desperate and disheveled, collapsing in

his shoe, looking down on her. "Get

de. "I'll pay you back! I'll work hard to

't your father, Alvin, teach you to bring

t he wanted. But he didn't give her any ti

y your side," she pleaded.

line of people wanting to be my woman stretching all

and I've never had a boyfriend. From head to toe, I'

alked off. Just when she thought she was about to be dragged

woman. That night, he said he'd "inspect the

an of City N, and he really di

with you forever, but that

ick up your self-respect again? Are you bargaining with

with you for three years, aren't you tired of m

actly are you trying to do now? Thi

an ounce of affection? And now that you're getting married, you still

fault; it's yours, for being

h anger as she threw off t

you're going? Did I

ns out there's no shortage of people willing to pay

he grabbed her wrist, pulling her

e sneered. "You really think you're attractive e

de was under this man's watch. All because Gord

don have to do

Conrad looked at her with a mocking smile. "You're my woman. E

yn doesn't want to be slept with by you or doesn't like you, so you