Chapter Eight: Dealing With A Problem

For a second, I couldn’t understand the words that Lyra said. Or maybe I didn't want to understand them.

The lingering tears of relief burned my eyes like acid as I stared at my sister. How on earth could she do something so stupid?

A hundred thousand dollars. How would we pay back a hundred thousand dollars? We were running from men already because of our debts, and the least she could do was lay low. Instead, she decided what we owed was not enough and had to add to the number.

Turning away, I started to pace, compulsively twisting a long tendril of blond hair into a tight ringlet around my finger as I struggled to make sense of all my worst fears coming true.

I had feared something like this would happen at the resort. I had dreaded the day we would be stuck in a terrible situation and flee our job.

I tried to control my shaking hands, but I couldn't. I tried desperately to think of a way out, and my mind was blank. There was only one way out in situations like this.

“But I to