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.”

after saying that, as if something had just occurred

fist. But on my face, there was still only a

“Alright,” I said.

a cramped, rundown apartment in

was in, there was barely space for

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A hundred grand.

like a figure from another world,

today–I had heard

know that I had been there that night, watching his performance from the crowd.

Claus suit, my face hidden beneath a tangled mess of cheap synthetic white hair. The glue used to stick it

look at me and told me to head backstage to clean up.

I passed by a room with its door left slightly

I heard his

place that shitty,” Pax said casually. His

don’t close the window, the

the room. Someone chimed in, voice full

really went all out, huh? Dressing up

probably be completely devoted to you.”

find out that when Nina had her birthday, you bought her a $100,000 designer bag without

Laughter erupted again.

“$100,000.”

my head, over

long are you planning to keep up this

she finds out you’ve been fooling around with some random girl,

poor girls are clingy as hell. You better hope she doesn’t get too attached.”

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