I'm ... I didn't mean for that to happen. I'm sorry."That spat out, I walked down the long hallway to voluntary exile in my room. My exile seemed to l...st an eternity, several long hours before the sharp rap on my door. Mom knocked and immediately opened the door. It would've been embarrassing if I'd had my pants down. But I'd been doing nothing in my room but waiting for that banging.She crooked a finger. "Come. Talk now."So Sharon had been Sharon. No surprise there. So now I got dipped in. Marie only went to bars in five star hotels because she knew that she would be sure to find a Western man on a business trip who would be happy to have the company of an attractive and submissive pinay for the night – and all for free. Marie was a slut, but she wasn’t a whore. She had often been asked for her price, but she refused to have anything to do with those types of men, and instead she looked for a specific man who she suspected would treat her like a slut and humiliate her while. ’ Nate reached across the table and Jolene reluctantly let him take her hand into his. ‘Listen, it won’t always be like this. It’s just with the new software I have to be there, it’s my team’s software and no one knows it better than me so it’s my duty to make sure everything goes well. Next year I won’t have to spend so much time there, but it’s vital we impress the hell outta the customers there. Right now we are the only ones with this kind of software on the market and if we don’t strangle. " I know but life just seems so uncertain right now." Life is what we make it babe. Nobody can ever take that away from us no matter how hard they try. Let's make a promise together Em."I took her soft hands in mine with all sincerity.“Whatever happens, wherever life takes us, if we ever find ourselves lost in this world, without each other, our town where we grew up together will be our beacon back." I promise."Leaving Em that day was the hardest thing that I would ever do in my life. Not.