Chapter 1
For the Christmas holidays, my girlfriend, Jessica, booked us on a trip abroad.
The moment our plane landed, she coaxed me onto a charter bus.
We drove for two days and two nights. As the landscape grew more and more familiar, a tremor ran through my entire body.
This was it. The hometown I had escaped from four years ago.
Sensing my unease, Jessica finally dropped the act.
Her face twisted into a snarl as she told me she was selling me to a remote, illegal compound, one staffec
entirely by women.
And the “Boss” she kept mentioning? The head of that entire operation. My own sister.
I had spent twenty years planning my escape, faking my own death to get away from her. And now, fou years later, Jessica had tricked me and brought me right back.
Seeing me tremble, Jessica’s smile was sickeningly sweet.
“Leo, you said you loved me, didn’t you? I’m in a lot of gambling debt. You’ll help me, won’t you?”
The thought of what my sister would do to her made my voice shake.
“Please, just send me back. If you need money, I’ll get it for you. I’ll work my entire life to support you, I swe
ar!”
Jessica’s expression soured. “You think I can wait that long?” she spat. “I owe a fortune! If I don’t pay it back in three days, they’ll kill me! I’ve kept you for two years, you useless piece of shit. It’s time you paid me back with interest!”
The word “useless” made me shudder violently.
Once, one of my sister’s underlings had muttered that I was useless, too afraid to even crush an ant. My sister had him buried in the dirt up to his neck, poured honey over his head, and let the ants do the rest.
He was eaten alive.
