LOGINAna Lancaster loses everything in a single day. Her boyfriend marries her pregnant best friend, then leaves her with the cruel reminder that no man would ever want a poor and plus-size girl like her. Now, Ana is nothing more than a servant in the Leon mansion, home to the most powerful business family in the city. Her life is filled with orders, humiliation, and degrading stares until three dangerous men begin paying attention to her. Leon, the cold and dominant man who looks at Ana as if she already belongs to him. Adrian, the mature and composed man who slowly makes Ana feel desired. Sebastian, the wild and seductive man who never hides his obsession with teasing her body and mind. When her late mother's hospital debt threatens to destroy her life, Ana becomes trapped in a secret arrangement with three men who are too rich, too powerful, and too obsessive to refuse. One decision pulls Ana into a world filled with money, desire, and dangerous games between three best friends who slowly begin destroying each other because of her. Behind expensive dresses, heated touches, and sinful whispers, Ana slowly realizes one thing: They don't just want her body. They want to own her completely.
View MoreAna's Pov.
I sat on one of the wooden pews in this church. My hands tightly gripped the edge of my dress until the fabric wrinkled. My boyfriend, Max, stood there in his neat black suit. Beside him was Sasha, my best friend since the first day I arrived in this city two years ago. Sasha's stomach was already swollen beneath her white wedding dress.
Two months ago, Sasha came to my apartment, kneeling on the floor while sobbing.
"Ana, I'm pregnant, and this baby is Max's. Please don't be mad."
I didn't cry back then. I just stayed silent.
I didn't know who I should be angry at. At Max, who said he was busy with work? Or at Sasha, who drank coffee with me every morning while talking about the guys who flirted with her?
Now they were getting married, and they kissed at the altar. Everyone applauded. Max's family, Sasha's family, friends who knew me only as "Sasha's good friend." No one even looked at me.
I slowly stood up and walked out through the side door.
Outside, my phone vibrated hard inside my pocket.
"Hey fatty! Come to the mall right now!"
I immediately hurried to the mall, and it took me twenty minutes. I was out of breath because of my excessive weight. By the time I arrived, Clara was already waiting.
"Oh my God, you took forever," Clara complained while shoving three large shopping bags into my hands. "Carry these."
I lifted all the bags. Their weight dragged my shoulders down. She walked in front of me with the relaxed steps of her expensive heels while talking about last night's party at a nightclub I had never stepped into because one entrance f*e there could pay for my meals for an entire week.
I simply followed her, occasionally adjusting the bags that kept slipping from my shoulders, occasionally lowering my head to avoid the stares of people watching a curly-haired girl carrying piles of luxury shopping bags in broad daylight.
When we reached the front of the mall, Clara stopped at the drop-off area. I placed the bags on the stone pavement while catching my breath. My arms felt like they were about to fall off.
A few moments later, three luxury cars stopped right in front of us. Bodyguards stepped out from the cars in the front and back. They opened the doors swiftly, and middle-aged men stepped out wearing neat suits, polished shoes, and wrinkle-free faces. One of them was Clara's father.
"Oh, I almost forgot, Ana," Clara turned around and pulled out several euro bills, twenties, fifties, and tens, before throwing them at me. The money hit my left cheek before falling to the ground.
She had repeated this humiliation hundreds of times over the past two years. Back then, it used to hurt me, but now nothing could hurt more than what I'd already experienced this morning when I saw my boyfriend marrying my best friend.
I lowered my head. I picked up the euro bills one by one and slipped them into my jacket pocket without counting them.
When I stood up again and brushed the dust off my knees, Clara was already inside the car. But before the car door closed, I saw something that made my breath stop for a second.
From the back seats of each car, those men were staring at me.
I couldn't move, then the car doors closed one by one. The three cars drove away together, leaving me standing alone on the sidewalk with dirty money in my pocket and the smell of exhaust smoke filling my nose.
Then I returned to the mansion. Of course, it wasn't my mansion. I worked there, at Clara's father's house.
When I got there, I unlocked the door to my room with a rusty key, then I cried for the first time that day.
I had just calmed myself down when my phone vibrated again. I thought it was another message from Clara, but it was actually from Max.
"I know you were at the church earlier. You saw it yourself, right? Sasha is beautiful, but you? Try looking at yourself for once. Your boyfriend chose another girl, and you still don't realize why? You can't even take care of yourself properly. You're just an ugly fat girl! After this, no man will ever want a fat girl like you!"
I read it once, then twice.
Not an apology, not regret. Just insults from the man who used to be my boyfriend.
I wanted to reply. I wanted to pour out all the pain that had built up over the last two months, but my hand stopped.
There was no need because he was no longer my problem.
I pressed on his name and blocked him, but less than a minute later, another message came in from Clara.
"Hey fatty! Come to the swimming pool now!"
I stared at Leon with eyes still drowsy from the medication. The hospital felt cold, the smell of antiseptic stung my nose, and outside the window, the London sky was starting to darken. But in front of me, Leon sat with a tired face, red eyes, disheveled hair."Let's fix everything. For Ethan," he said.I was silent."For Ethan," he repeated.I took a long breath. My chest felt tight, like something was trapped there. I shook my head."No, Leon."Leon froze."What?""I don't want to. Not after everything I've been through with you.""Ana...""You heard me. I don't want to. I turned down Adrian and Sebastian, let alone you."Leon was silent. I saw his jaw harden. He clenched his fists on his lap, his knuckles turning white."What do I have to do? What do I have to do for you to give me a chance?"I looked at him. I saw the man in front of me—the man I used to love, the man who used to hurt me, the man who was now begging with wet eyes. I saw all the wounds he had left, all the pain he
Leon kept following me every day.I didn't know how he did it, but every time I went out, his black car was always somewhere on the corner of the street, across from the café, behind the building where I was looking for work. Even at night, when I walked home tired, the car's lights were still dimly glowing in the distance, never too close, but never too far either.Unlike Adrian and Sebastian, who gave me space, Leon was like a shadow I couldn't shake off. Adrian and Sebastian came, they talked, they left. They didn't force their presence every second. But Leon? Leon seemed to have no other job than following me."You think by following me, everything will go back to how it was?" I muttered to my own reflection in the taxi's rearview mirror.But no one answered.That night, after a whole day of job hunting and turning down Sebastian's offers that were too kind, I felt frustrated. I couldn't go back to the apartment. I couldn't see Ethan because he was already asleep.I wanted to forg
The museum was huge. An old building with classical architecture, white marble pillars towering at the entrance, and above them, golden lettering that read clearly: Natural History Museum. Ethan ran ahead of Ana, his eyes sparkling, impatient to see the dinosaurs he had only ever seen in books and plastic toys."Mom! Hurry, Mom! I want to see the T-rex!" he shouted, waving his arms.Ana smiled. She tried to keep up with Ethan's pace, although deep inside, there was still an anxiety she couldn't shake. Ever since earlier, since the incident on the road, she felt like someone was following them. Every time she turned around, there was no one there."Come on. Slow down. Don't run," she said.Ethan didn't listen. He had already entered the large hall with a giant dinosaur skeleton in the center. His mouth dropped open, his eyes wide."Wow! It's so big!"Ana stood behind him, looking at her son with love. For a moment, she only saw Ethan, her child, happy.But the pain came suddenly.Her l
Author's Pov.The next morning."Mom, where are we going?" Ethan asked as he put on his slightly worn sneakers."To the museum. There are dinosaurs.""Really? T-rex?""Really. T-rex, brontosaurus, triceratops, all of them."Ethan jumped with excitement. "Yay! I want to see the T-rex!"Ana smiled. A smile that had rarely appeared lately."Come on, let's take a taxi."Sebastian couldn't join them; he had business that couldn't be postponed. But he had made sure Ana had enough money, and he had already booked a taxi for them."Take care," Sebastian said, kissing Ana's forehead. "Don't be long. I'll worry.""I'll be fine," Ana replied.She took Ethan's hand and walked out.The taxi they took was an old black one with seats that were starting to tear in some places. The driver was a middle aged man with thinning hair and a thick mustache, friendly and talkative. He kept chatting about his children, his grandchildren, about how much he loved sunny days like this.Ana only half listened. Her
They came again the next day.I had just finished cooking instant noodles, a food I'd been eating too often lately, even though the doctor said I needed to eat nutritious food for my baby. But the money was running out.I had to save money, and I didn't know how much longer Leon's money would last.
On a small wooden table with its paint starting to peel, a tiny birthday cake stood alone. A single candle with the number 26 was stuck into the cream, which wasn't very neat, the result of my own spreading. I lit the candle. The small flame flickered, as if joining in the celebration of my lonelin
Author's Pov.Antonio Harrington's funeral was held on Sunday, under a low gray sky. A light rain had been falling since morning, soaking the green grass of the Harrington family cemetery. Black umbrellas were scattered among the white marble tombstones. The mourners came from various circles: busi
It's been over a month since I trapped myself in this rented apartment.Behind the window I never open, the world keeps spinning. The sun rises and sets. Cars pass by. People go to work, come home from work, eat, sleep, and repeat it all again the next day.But in here, time feels frozen. I don't g












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