Chapter
Chapters
Chapter 1: Wrapped Around Her Ankle
Chapter 2: Meat Is Meat
Chapter 3: No Interest
Chapter 4：Fed The Whiskey
Chapter 5: The Reconstructed Face
Chapter 6: Two Buttons Short
Chapter 7: Her Name
Chapter 8: Fish Girl
Chapter 9: He Laughed When I Swore
Chapter 10: Bike Race
Chapter 11: Mrs. Chen’s Fried Chicken
Chapter 12: Teenage Longings Under Night’s Veil
Chapter 13: Just Boat Whores
Chapter 14: When Heroes Fall
Chapter 15: Lights on the Water
Chapter 16: Unraveling Threads
Chapter 17: You Weren't This Cold In Bed
Chapter 18: The Most Gifted Softball Student
Chapter 19: Every Man's Sexual Fantasy in Town
Chapter 20: They're Inside
Chapter 21: August 30,Transfer Day
Chapter 22: Hit and Run-In
Chapter 23: Bad Habits in the Dark
Chapter 24: The Yellowed Bra
Chapter 25: Unexpected Kindness
Chapter 26: You're Going to Win
Chapter 27: Blue Ostrich
Chapter 28: She's Got More Backbone Than You Do
Chapter 29: Second Place Son
Chapter 30: Midnight Visitor
Chapter 31: Maybe We Could Try
Chapter 32: Champion Fucker
Chapter 33: The Real Clown
Chapter 34: White Daisies and My Guilt
Chapter 35: A Piece of Fabric
Chapter 36: The Photography
Chapter 37: She Wasn't As Sexy and Beautiful As You Are
Chapter 38: Lover from New York
Chapter 39: When the Wind Howls
Chapter 40: Coward
Chapter 41: It's For Your Mom
Chapter 42: The Five-Thousand-Dollar Secret
Chapter 43: Blood on Marble
Chapter 44: Christmas Eve in a Cell
Chapter 45: Maybe My Mother Is Right About Girls Like You!
Chapter 46: Kneeling for Mercy
Chapter 47: Faded Dream
Chapter 48: She Would Never Commit Suicide
Chapter 49: It's Always The Husband
Chapter 50: Perfect Answers
Chapter 51: The White Sheet
Chapter 52: The Uninvited Guest
Chapter 53: So Who’s Stealing Whom?
Chapter 54: You Can Shoot?
Chapter 55: The Last Conversation
Chapter 56: Missing
Chapter 57: When the Wolves Come Calling
Chapter 58: The Debt Collectors
Chapter 59: You Can Use Your Bodies as Collateral
Chapter 60: The Floating Casino
Chapter 61: The Special New Home
Chapter 62: The Woman from New York
Chapter 63: The Leap
Chapter 64: The Empty Apartment
Chapter 65: Mistress of the Mob
Chapter 66: The Grave Visit
Chapter 67: The Loaded Gun
Chapter 68: The Woman Shared by Father and Son
Chapter 69: Moans Through Thin Walls
Chapter 70: 2800 Dollars
Chapter 71: Do I Really Look Like A Peach Now?
Chapter 72: You're Gonna Need It
Chapter 73: Why Not Sell Houses Instead of Softballs
Chapter 74: Dream big. Close bigger!
Chapter 75: I'm A Screw-up
Chapter 76:Dialing Danger at Midnight
Chapter 77: My New York Dream Has Come True
Chapter 78: Maybe He Has Something on Nina's Mother
Chapter 79: Not Her Boyfriend At All
Chapter 80: The Lie Unravels
Chapter 81: Hand On My Thigh
Chapter 82: Monica Disappeared
Chapter 83: Shared Secrets
Chapter 84: She's Cheating!
Chapter 85: Women's Weapons
Chapter 86：Body as Currency
Chapter 87: Sold for Nothing
Chapter 88: Last Resort
Chapter 89: The Rules Behind This City
Chapter 90: The Revelation
Chapter 91: Homecoming
Chapter 92: Frosting and Cracks
Chapter 93: The Sex Tape Threat
Chapter 94: Stay Tonight
Chapter 95: Special Roommate
Chapter 96: The Missing Year
Chapter 97: Stripper Roommate
Chapter 98: Back to Square One
Chapter 99: Dreams Deferred
Chapter 100: False Accusations
Chapter 101: Every Bare Inch
Chapter 102: New York Cops
Chapter 103: His Crazy Proposal
Chapter 104: New Beginnings
Chapter 105: First Time in His Room
Chapter 106: Studying Between the Sheets
Chapter 107: Letting Go
Chapter 108: Sleeping Her Way to the Top
Chapter 109: The Fallen Man
Chapter 110: Coffee Shop Memories
Chapter 111: The Last Lesson
Chapter 112: How Did You Become a Stripper?
Chapter 113: Power in the Spotlight
Chapter 114: Lupus
Chapter 115: The Butterfly Rash
Chapter 116: The Decision
Chapter 117: Trapped
Chapter 118: Cold Barrel
Chapter 119: The Boyfriend Nobody Saw
Chapter 120: Confessions
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Chapter 115: The Butterfly Rash
November 2006, Jackson, Mississippi
Nina's POV
The hospital hallway smelled like disinfectant and despair. My footsteps echoed against the linoleum as I followed the room numbers until I found June's room.
Through the small window, I could see Mom sitting beside a hospital bed, her shoulders hunched...