Gloria spent the entire afternoon keeping herself busy, moving from one task to another as if stopping even for a second would allow her thoughts to swallow her whole
She stripped the bed, washed the sheets, cleaned every trace left behind in Lukas’s room, her movements steady but her mind anything but calm No matter how hard she tried to ignore it, one thought kept pressing at the back of her mind Her salary She paused for a brief moment, her fingers tightening around the damp fabric in her hands
“How am I even supposed to ask him?” she muttered under her breath, It wasn’t just about money, it was about what she had agreed to, about the humiliation tied to it, about the fact that she had sold herself just to survive
But she had no choice Victor had made sure of that
He would rather dr
