Chapter 1

“Ah, it hurts–“
“Don’t try to escape!”
“I don’t want it, please don’t continue! Ah…”
…
Emily Miller opened her eyes, and the unfamiliar pain all over her body made her realize that everything was not a dream.

She was in a hotel suite, with the hazy morning light filtering through the carpet and a beautiful bed, and her clothes were all wrinkled on the floor.

She was raped last night!

Emily held her head and tried to recall desperately. She worked part-time at The Sanctuary Lounge, selling drinks to customers. A lecherous old regular customer kept pestering her to drink before settling the bill. After drinking, she found that the drink was drugged.

She finally managed to escape, and in a panic, she entered an empty room. After that, her memory became fragmented…

Suddenly, the bathroom door was opened.

She realized that there was someone else in the room besides her, and Emily quickly pulled up the blanket to cover herself.

The man looked like a tall and sturdy northern man, with a strong and masculine facial features, and exceptionally handsome.

He was only wearing a bath towel around his waist, and his upper body was bare in the air, with two solid chest muscles, followed by a straight and visible abdominal muscles and a V-shaped line leading down to his lower abdomen, and his hair was dripping with water.

Emily blushed and quickly looked away, then looked back again.

Her first time was taken away by this stranger in front of her, and she was tortured to death!

The man walked over and pulled open the curtains, took out a cigarette from the table, and turned his head to look at her, exhaling smoke.

“What are you looking at? Do you want to do it again?”

What the hell!

Emily was furious in her heart.The fact that she had lost her innocence was a reality, so she resigned herself to wrapping herself tightly in the sheets and trying not to expose herself as she picked up her clothes one by one and carried them to the bathroom to get dressed.

When she came out, the man was still standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, tapping his cigarette ash and walking straight towards her.

Emily nervously took a half-step back, but when he reached her, he simply bent down to pick up the wallet on the ground, took out two stacks of money, and tossed them onto the bed.

“Although you were very enthusiastic last night, I enjoyed it as well. Here’s twenty thousand.”

Emily’s gaze followed the two stacks of money.

Twenty thousand wasn’t a large amount, but it was enough to cover her grandmother’s medical expenses for a month.
She looked up and met the man’s deep, dark eyes, where the cold, mocking meaning was clear.

It seemed that in his eyes, women who slept with men casually were only worth this much.

A strong sense of humiliation rose from the bottom of her heart.

The man sneered and narrowed his eyes, his jaw clenched slightly.

“You don’t want the money, but you want me to take responsibility for you? Dream on.”

Emily was angry in her heart and put her hands in her jeans pockets.

She couldn’t pull out two stacks, but she could pull out two bills.

When she was in school, she was always the most inconspicuous person in the crowd, never arguing or blushing with anyone.

But even a rabbit will bite when it’s cornered.

She raised her hand and slapped the outstanding face in front of her with force.

“Two hundred is the price I paid. What’s wrong? You don’t want the money, but you want me to take responsibility for you?” Emily imitated his tone and sneered, “Dream on!”

With that, she walked away with her head held high, although her walking posture was a bit twisted due to the pain.
Two red bills flew past her eyes, and Liam Martinez stood still for the first time in his thirty-year life, until she had left for a few seconds before reacting.

He angrily grabbed the sheets, revealing a dried bloodstain.