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Ruben Errard, the city’s most powerful man–on record and off, went crazy when I disappeared.
Ruben had an obsession, and normal girls couldn’t handle how rough he was.
To pay off his gambling debts, my dad found a pro to train me in how to please a man.
Every day, I had to ride a wooden horse, swallow bananas, and soak in special baths that made my body more sensitive.
In the end, I was trained to be irresistibly seductive–just a gesture, and I knew how to pose to tempt a man.
My father offered me to Ruben–like a present, expected to meet his every need in bed.
Ruben used me all night without mercy.
When I woke up, his eyes were red and he grabbed my neck. “You filthy thing! You’re disgusting!”
However, even while he cursed me, he could not stop wanting me.
For three whole years, I was trapped in his bed.
Every time he finished with me, he would kick me off and tell me to go wash myself.
I thought this nightmare would last forever–until three months ago
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“Tell me, what do you want?” he asked.
I knelt at his feet, my fingers shaking. “Please help me fake my death and escape the Errard family.”
Late that night, the maid brought me the outfit I had to wear.
A thin piece of gauze that barely covered anything in front.
The little props that came with it were awful, and they vibrated like crazy the second they went in.
I bit my lip and forced myself to bear it while I got dressed.
Ruben came in. His cold eyes went straight to my chest, and he smirked.
“Elise, you’re even filthier than a street hooker.”
He ripped my clothes off and could not wait to start. “When I’m sick of you, I’ll take you to the club.
“Let every man have a taste of you.”
I shut my eyes. Tears of shame slid down as I waited for the sun to rise.
The next morning, I climbed out of bed on shaking legs, cleaned myself up, and knelt by the bed, waiting for Ruben to wake up.
He looked at the bruises on my neck and sneered.
“How disgusting. Are you acting pitiful? Get lost.”
I bowed my head and turned to leave. Just as I reached the door, a
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bottle of pills hit me in the face.
“Don’t act like my family mistreats you.”
I picked up the pills and ran into Ruben’s assistant on my way out.
I was used to the pity in his eyes.
He went in, gave Ruben his schedule, and then said carefully, “Mr. Errard, the company has developed a new medicine to fix your issue, so maybe you could let Ms. Elise Raimond…”
Yet, before he could finish, Ruben’s cold stare made him freeze.
“Oh? You care about her so much, do you? Do you like her?”
Terrified, the assistant slapped himself over and over and never dared speak up for me again.
I rushed back to my tiny attic room. There wasn’t even time to apply the medicine–I just grabbed my escape bag and packed as fast as I could.
Just as I finished, someone from the Errard Group came to tell me that Ruben was taking me to see his mother.
In the dining room, the news was playing–reporting about Ruben’s ex- fiancée, Veronica Raimond, coming back from her honeymoon.
Ruben’s mother, Caroline Napson, kept nagging him, “Look at you. Now that Veronica’s married, you should stop thinking about her. It’s time for you to have a child for the family.”
