TRAPPED WITH THE STRANGER WHO TAUGHT ME HOW TO SIN
California became a past life I buried without a funeral and I didn’t even look back once.
With no money, no contacts, and no plan, I was just a bruised girl with too many nightmares and a desperate hunger to start over.
And starting over looked like walking into The Velvet Fang, a fancy Nevada strip club with velvet walls, bright neon lights, and filled with wealthy men who paid to pretend. Some cried, some lied, and most forgot my name the second they came.
It didn't matter because I made them remember.
They called me Red now, the only piece of my past I allowed to survive. The color burned through everything—the pain, the shame, the softness. Even my hair screamed it, dyed a fierce crimso