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.”

as if something had just occurred to

fingers into a fist. But on my face,

“Alright,” I said.

cramped, rundown apartment in the heart of the city slums.

that once the bed was in, there was barely space

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A hundred grand.

from another world, impossibly out

today–I had

that I had been there that night, watching his performance from

glue used to stick it on must have been low–quality–I felt an itch creeping across my skin, and soon, red splotches broke out along my

me and told me

room with its door left slightly ajar.

I heard his

kind of over it. Never in my life have I lived in a place that shitty,” Pax said casually. His tone was

don’t close the window, the

room. Someone chimed in, voice full of

went all out, huh? Dressing up like

she’ll probably be completely devoted to

her birthday, you bought her a $100,000 designer bag

Laughter erupted again.

“$100,000.”

my

long are you planning to

seven days. If she finds out you’ve been fooling

And poor girls are clingy as hell. You better hope she doesn’t

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