71. The Ballerina

The sun was shining through the heavy curtains when Charlotte woke up. She was tired from working at Babes last night. At the age of twenty-three, she was feeling like an old woman with creaky joints. She was too pale and too skinny, she lost weight easily after her future was ripped apart from her grasp.

Charlotte was once the prima ballerina at one of the country's prestigious ballet houses until her dad's embezzlement case came to surface. Not long after that, her mom passed away from a heart attack after months of struggling for her life in a hospital bed. All while her dad's trial was going on, until the day he was sentenced and imprisoned for the biggest financial fraud the country had witnessed in the last decade.

She was humiliated, her friends abandoned her, and she was burdened with the huge debt of her mom's medical bills. Homeless and jobless, Charlotte was entangled with a stranger, a man who took her into his mansion of a house where he let her stay to pay off her mom's