Price of Defiance

"I have no money." She confessed the pathetic truth.

Her shoulders dropped in absolute despair. The crushing realization of her sick father's secret underworld debt sank deep into her bones. The heavy mahogany door behind her felt like a solid wall of ice, trapping her inside the apex predator's cage. She stared at the man across the room, desperately searching for a flicker of a sick joke in his