Tina Baker had always hustled to make ends meet. She didn’t come from much - her mother was an alcoholic, and her siblings were scattered from different dads like forgotten puzzle pieces.
Tina dropped out of high school when she got pregnant at seventeen, and from then on, life became a grind. By twenty-two, she was stripping at The Starlight Lounge, doing what she had to in order to feed her son and keep the lights on.
Those days were long gone now. At thirty, with two kids and a tired body, she no longer drew attention the way she used to. These days, she scraped by with what little money she made pimping young women to men who wanted to have a good time.
She was on her old couch in a dark room that had a hint of cheap food and old scent, just looking at her phone while her little on
