“Jessica, everything in this world has a price. Name your price. Tell me how much I have to pay for you to love me.”
Albert's calm, almost numb voice suddenly echoed in my ear.
"Listen to what he's saying! Name my price? Does he really think I’m something that can be bought with money, from head to toe, inside and out? Do I have no dignity, no self-respect left?"
I was so angry, my vision blurred!
"This isn’t right!
Yes, I do need money, and I could give him my body for it.
But that doesn’t mean this man can take everything from me!
Including my heart!
It’s true, to him, a poor woman’s love doesn’t mean anything.
But to me, to my family, my love is unique in this world!
He’s clearly insulting me."
I wanted to argue. When I met his tyrannical gaze, my heart, wh
