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.

throat as she spoke. “I have the money. Please save my mom and brother…” she pleaded, handing

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

in the hallway, Dolores grabbed the doctor’s arms and

“I’m sorry; it’s already too late to

stabbed

and daughter. He sent them to

and her mother worked odd jobs to make ends meet, and then a car accident had taken everything Dolores loved in an instant, leaving her

might only make them feel the

of her son, she had gone crazy.

here, please live

often stared into space at the edge of her bed. Dolores knew she missed her son.

she was expelled from school, but Dolores was

*****

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

then. You even promised to let your child marry hers

talking about Matthew Nelson, are

amount of weight and strength from staying in the hospital, struggled to get up. She wanted nothing more than to hit the man, paying no mind to her wound Had he lost his mind? First, he dumped her and her daughter in a terrible place, never paying them anymore mind, and now he was insisting her marry off her daughter to the son of a woman

and you know their family status. Marrying the two would only lead to a happy life…” The

abroad and was paralyzed. Because of

pushed the door open, her forgotten bag of food still in her hand. “I’ll do it,” she said, her appearance startling the two before

the door and looked at his daughter whom he hadn’t seen for eight

grown up. She had pale skin and she was extremely underweight. Her face seemed small, like she was being pulled

a cripple who couldn’t have sex. Having thought of this, his guilt vanished and he believed

out with

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