PETRO

up for my shift at the club. The lights

the strap of my red costume. We were dancers, performing for rich

the air changed. It wasn't the perfume of the d

of the normal fresh mist. I froze, glancing

whispered, looking toward the door. Be

ing applied to the other girls. From my almost unconscious se

as Celine's hands in mine b

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one. Instead, I was in a room that

ropes, and the sound of men talking

In 2024, who the hell still

canned the unfamiliar room. It was

me. I was just a dancer. But here

going to happen to me? The door swung

idn't even hesitate. It was him-the one

ame was, I hat

f furniture he owned. He wore the kind of suit that scre

I was an object. My blood boiled as I

ere without knocking?" I spat, han

d to knock. You're mine. I can come and go as I pl

stomach twist with disgust

"You think that matters now? You're in my world now, c

I shuddered at the thought of what could go wrong if I

downstairs," he comman

w that I stayed where I was, refusi

cade dropped, and in a flash, he was i

, but he was stronger. His fingers dug int

hoing through the hallway as he pulled

anger. I fought with everything I ha

nsion, my body ached, but I refused to break. H

ut one woman-an older lady-stood out, her

eted her, releasing

s she looked at me. "Why waste money on such a stubborn idiot?" sh

e the frustration brewing in him.

d," she turned to face me. "¿Cómo te

rogatory manner. I was

both Viktor and Irina. I didn't care. If they

mething special." She snapped her fingers at on

nothing more than a commo

was dragged away to start my humiliating chores, I kep

r creaked open behind me. I didn't bother turning around unti

me, her arms crossed, he

's new toy is," she

was just as bland as him. I stoo

or an Italian and probably they are dating. "I don'

hing to entice him. But I know low life like you,

mistake my silence for fear. I'm not scared of you.

tended, but I didn't regret it. I wa

t anyone own me, especially not some jealous woman wi

noticed Viktor watching from th

surviving. If defiance was the only thing