Chapter 137: The Final Bid
April 1st, 2008, New York
Nina's POV
One week before April 1st, I cornered the manager in his office. The question had been burning in my mind for days.
"Can I keep wearing the mask forever?"
He looked up from his paperwork, a cigarette dangling from his lips.
Deep in my heart, removing the mask fel...
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1: Wrapped Around Her Ankle
2. Chapter 2: Meat Is Meat
3. Chapter 3: No Interest
4. Chapter 4:Fed The Whiskey
5. Chapter 5: The Reconstructed Face
6. Chapter 6: Two Buttons Short
7. Chapter 7: Her Name
8. Chapter 8: Fish Girl

9. Chapter 9: He Laughed When I Swore

10. Chapter 10: Bike Race

11. Chapter 11: Mrs. Chen’s Fried Chicken

12. Chapter 12: Teenage Longings Under Night’s Veil

13. Chapter 13: Just Boat Whores

14. Chapter 14: When Heroes Fall

15. Chapter 15: Lights on the Water

16. Chapter 16: Unraveling Threads

17. Chapter 17: You Weren't This Cold In Bed

18. Chapter 18: The Most Gifted Softball Student

19. Chapter 19: Every Man's Sexual Fantasy in Town

20. Chapter 20: They're Inside

21. Chapter 21: August 30,Transfer Day

22. Chapter 22: Hit and Run-In

23. Chapter 23: Bad Habits in the Dark

24. Chapter 24: The Yellowed Bra

25. Chapter 25: Unexpected Kindness

26. Chapter 26: You're Going to Win

27. Chapter 27: Blue Ostrich

28. Chapter 28: She's Got More Backbone Than You Do

29. Chapter 29: Second Place Son

30. Chapter 30: Midnight Visitor

31. Chapter 31: Maybe We Could Try

32. Chapter 32: Champion Fucker

33. Chapter 33: The Real Clown

34. Chapter 34: White Daisies and My Guilt

35. Chapter 35: A Piece of Fabric

36. Chapter 36: The Photography

37. Chapter 37: She Wasn't As Sexy and Beautiful As You Are

38. Chapter 38: Lover from New York

39. Chapter 39: When the Wind Howls

40. Chapter 40: Coward

41. Chapter 41: It's For Your Mom

42. Chapter 42: The Five-Thousand-Dollar Secret

43. Chapter 43: Blood on Marble

44. Chapter 44: Christmas Eve in a Cell

45. Chapter 45: Maybe My Mother Is Right About Girls Like You!

46. Chapter 46: Kneeling for Mercy

47. Chapter 47: Faded Dream

48. Chapter 48: She Would Never Commit Suicide

49. Chapter 49: It's Always The Husband

50. Chapter 50: Perfect Answers

51. Chapter 51: The White Sheet

52. Chapter 52: The Uninvited Guest

53. Chapter 53: So Who’s Stealing Whom?

54. Chapter 54: You Can Shoot?

55. Chapter 55: The Last Conversation

56. Chapter 56: Missing

57. Chapter 57: When the Wolves Come Calling

58. Chapter 58: The Debt Collectors

59. Chapter 59: You Can Use Your Bodies as Collateral

60. Chapter 60: The Floating Casino

61. Chapter 61: The Special New Home

62. Chapter 62: The Woman from New York

63. Chapter 63: The Leap

64. Chapter 64: The Empty Apartment

65. Chapter 65: Mistress of the Mob

66. Chapter 66: The Grave Visit

67. Chapter 67: The Loaded Gun

68. Chapter 68: The Woman Shared by Father and Son

69. Chapter 69: Moans Through Thin Walls

70. Chapter 70: 2800 Dollars

71. Chapter 71: Do I Really Look Like A Peach Now?

72. Chapter 72: You're Gonna Need It

73. Chapter 73: Why Not Sell Houses Instead of Softballs

74. Chapter 74: Dream big. Close bigger!

75. Chapter 75: I'm A Screw-up

76. Chapter 76:Dialing Danger at Midnight 

77. Chapter 77: My New York Dream Has Come True

78. Chapter 78: Maybe He Has Something on Nina's Mother

79. Chapter 79: Not Her Boyfriend At All

80. Chapter 80: The Lie Unravels

81. Chapter 81: Hand On My Thigh

82. Chapter 82: Monica Disappeared

83. Chapter 83: Shared Secrets

84. Chapter 84: She's Cheating!

85. Chapter 85: Women's Weapons

86. Chapter 86:Body as Currency

87. Chapter 87: Sold for Nothing

88. Chapter 88: Last Resort

89. Chapter 89: The Rules Behind This City

90. Chapter 90: The Revelation

91. Chapter 91: Homecoming

92. Chapter 92: Frosting and Cracks

93. Chapter 93: The Sex Tape Threat

94. Chapter 94: Stay Tonight

95. Chapter 95: Special Roommate

96. Chapter 96: The Missing Year

97. Chapter 97: Stripper Roommate

98. Chapter 98: Back to Square One

99. Chapter 99: Dreams Deferred

100. Chapter 100: False Accusations

101. Chapter 101: Every Bare Inch

102. Chapter 102: New York Cops

103. Chapter 103: His Crazy Proposal

104. Chapter 104: New Beginnings

105. Chapter 105: First Time in His Room

106. Chapter 106: Studying Between the Sheets

107. Chapter 107: Letting Go

108. Chapter 108: Sleeping Her Way to the Top

109. Chapter 109: The Fallen Man

110. Chapter 110: Coffee Shop Memories

111. Chapter 111: The Last Lesson

112. Chapter 112: How Did You Become a Stripper?

113. Chapter 113: Power in the Spotlight

114. Chapter 114: Lupus

115. Chapter 115: The Butterfly Rash

116. Chapter 116: The Decision

117. Chapter 117: Trapped

118. Chapter 118: Cold Barrel

119. Chapter 119: The Boyfriend Nobody Saw

120. Chapter 120: Confessions

121. Chapter 121: The Golden Palace

122. Chapter 122: The Porcupine Without Quills

123. Chapter 123: Stocks Rise, Clothes Fall

124. Chapter 124: Roulette of Desire

125. Chapter 125: Bondage

126. Chapter 126: The Dow and the Whip

127. Chapter 127: The Allure of Passive Income

128. Chapter 128: The Fall

129. Chapter 129: Stripped by the Market

130. Chapter 130: Stage Name

131. Chapter 131:The Forgotten Sister

132. Chapter 132: The Night of the Murder1

133. Chapter 133: The Night of the Murder2

134. Chapter 134:The Victim Turned Killer

135. Chapter 135:First Strip

136. Chapter 136: A Face Worth Chasing

137. Chapter 137: The Final Bid

138. Chapter 138: Unveiled and Unwanted


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