The heat of his body pressed against her and the warmth from his breath tickled her ear.

“Are you scared?” he asked.

His hot breath lingered near her ear, making her shiver and scared to speak. Dolores Flores sensed that the man was holding himself back, his deep voice thick with desire. “It’s still not too late to change your mind.”

Dolores clenched her fists and shook her head nervously. “No, I want this.”

She was in the prime of her life. And yet…

The man leaned forward and his lips brushed the side of her neck. “Good.”

*****

Her night was long and excruciating.

When the man finally got up and went to the bathroom in the latter half of the night, Dolores dragged her exhausted body out of bed. She struggled into her clothes and walked out of the room without a second glance.

The middle-aged woman who introduced Dolores to the business sat on a sofa in the hotel lobby. Seeing Dolores exiting the elevator, the woman stood and handed Dolores a black plastic bag.

“Here’s your payment.”

Without more than a second’s hesitation, Dolores snatched the bag out of the woman’s hand. Giving a curt nod in thanks, Dolores hurried out of the hotel, having forgotten the pain she felt in the lower half of her body. She only wanted to reach the hospital as fast as possible.

The sky was just beginning to show the first rays of light, and the hospital hallway was quiet. Two stretchers were sitting outside of the operating room. Since the two hadn’t the money upfront for the operation, the bodies on the stretchers were still waiting outside, needing a miracle.

Dolores’s heart ached as she approached the two of them.

the money. Please save my mom and brother…” she pleaded, handing the money in the bag to the

sum. Only after he was certain all the money was there did he ask the nurses to wheel her mother in

grabbed the doctor’s arms and pleaded to him.

already too

stabbed her in

sent them to a foreign strange country, not even

that time and her brother’s condition made their life harder, though Dolores loved her brother too much to care. She and her mother worked odd jobs to make ends

make them feel uncomfortable and perhaps make it difficult to breathe. For others, it might only make them feel the sky looked

Dolores’ mother gradually recovered. However, upon discovering the death of her son, she had gone crazy. It was Dolores who hugged her

I’m still here,

edge of her bed. Dolores knew

from school, but Dolores was just glad that her mother was getting better, even if it

*****

door when she heard a voice from inside—a voice she was familiar with. Although it had been eight years, she still remembered watching her father forcing her mother to sign the divorce papers. After sending them here, he had never once visited them. So why was he suddenly visiting his

child marry hers when they grew

you’re not talking about Matthew Nelson, are you?” Jessica asked,

than to hit the man, paying no mind to her wound Had he lost his mind? First, he dumped her and her daughter

of the Nelson family is your best friend’s son. He was raised well and you know their family

a venomous snake while on a business trip abroad and was paralyzed. Because of

hand. “I’ll do it,” she said, her appearance startling the two before her. “I’m okay with

turned to the door and looked at his daughter whom he hadn’t seen

a ten-year-old kid. Now, she was all grown up. She had pale skin and she was extremely underweight. Her face seemed small, like she was being pulled into herself. She seemed as if her body hadn’t been able to fully develop.

wasn’t too bad to let her marry a cripple who couldn’t have sex. Having thought of this, his guilt vanished and he

then out with

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