Chapter 1

Chapter 1

“What are you watching?”

Pax slipped his arms around me from behind, his breath warm against my skin. A featherlight kiss landed on my earlobe, sending a shiver down my spine.

His gaze shifted to my phone screen.

For a long moment, he said nothing. Then, with a low chuckle, he reached up and covered my eyes. “Don’t watch that… it’s embarrassing.”

The video kept playing.

On the screen, Pax was in a ballet dress, balancing on tiptoes, spinning in wobbly circles. His movements were clumsy, awkward. But his expression–so focused, so serious–made my chest tighten.

My throat felt dry.

“Was it worth it?” I asked softly.

He had gone this far–putting on a dress, performing ballet, throwing away his pride–all to earn enough to buy me a measly $10 apple cake.

Was it really worth it?

“Of course it was.”

He answered without hesitation, his voice lazy, as if it was the easiest thing in the world.

“This is nothing.”

“When I make real money one day, I’ll buy you designer bags. The kind that cost a hundred grand.”

that, as if something

on my face, there

“Alright,” I said.

lived in a cramped, rundown apartment in the heart

so small that once the bed was in, there was barely

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A hundred grand.

like a figure from another

today–I had

that I had been there that night, watching his performance

Claus suit, my face hidden beneath a tangled mess of cheap synthetic white hair. The glue used to stick it on must have been low–quality–I felt an itch

look at me and told

I passed by a room with its door left slightly ajar.

heard his

place that shitty,” Pax said

window, the whole room reeks of rotting fish and shrimp.”

through the room. Someone chimed

really went all out, huh? Dressing up

she’ll probably be completely devoted to

if she’d ever find out that when Nina had her birthday, you bought her a $100,000 designer bag without even

Laughter erupted again.

“$100,000.”

rang in my head, over

are you

seven days. If she finds out you’ve been fooling around with some random girl, you’re

You better

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