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Sean said frankly, "Don't you just want money? I'll give it to you now. But I don't want your service. You can leave now if you want. Or you can stay with me for the night if you have nowhere else to go."

Yvonne's eyes watered slightly at Sean's words.

She had no idea why she had the impulse to cry. She felt her heart had been hardened and chilled by life. However, she now had the urge to burst into tears.

"Well... W-Where shall I sleep?" Yvonne asked hesitantly.

"You can have the bed. I'll sleep on the sofa," Sean said immediately.

"I'll sleep on the couch," Yvonne said after a moment.

She was embarrassed enough to crash into someone's room. It would have been shameless of her to take the bed and let him sleep on the sofa.

Sean said nothing more. There was not much difference between a sofa and a bed anyway. The hotel's sofa was huge and soft. It was no worse than a bed.

Sean took a quilt out of the cupboard and gave it to Yvonne. Then he watched Yvonne fall asleep on the sofa with the quilt.

turn off the

Sean asked.

"Yeah..." Yvonne answered softly.

into darkness after the lights were turned

falling asleep, and Yvonne

not spent a night with men before, but

men.

tonight strange, it was like a complicated

is

Yvonne thought to herself.

west side of the city, are

for a while before replying, "Yeah. I'm from the west. I grew up there. I've been to school, but

Union did not make nine-year education

school, which was already considered not bad for the poor,

come out... Uh... And did this?" Sean asked

had no problems feeding ourselves. But there was an accident in the coal mine last month. My father broke his hand and is still on bed rest. My mother and I had no income and were forced to come out to make