Dirty (short stories)
“My mom got sick when I was eighteen, she had cancer, it went real bad, bills were coming in faster than we could pay. I was working two jobs, at a café in the day, and at a bar at night and still we were drowning in debt. Someone offered me $500 for just lingerie photos. I said yes because we needed to eat. Then they offered more for videos. I said yes again. And again. And again.”
She shrugged small, and in a tired way, but not ashamed.
“At first it was just survival. Then it became… power. For the first time I was the one deciding how I was seen. How much I was worth. I wasn’t begging anymore. I was selling and I was good at it.”
Noah listened, he didn’t interrupt her, he just watched her