She was very ready to be rid of this place, to be out the door and heading home, very quickly and with her head down. She'd need time to process, time to figure out how an eighteen year old girl could handle thirty thousand in cash and god only knew how much in assorted gold coins and jewelry. She had to be careful with this. She had to make it last. Make it stretch. Her mother absolutely could not know about it. She'd make up a lie about a scholarship.
But he wasn't finished playing with her just yet, like a cat enjoying itself, torturing a mouse. Her eyes widened at his words, fury pounding in her ears, humiliation burning at her cheeks.
She could probably have taken it like a slap to the face and left. That probably would have been the smart thing to do. Go home and tell herself he was wrong and who cared, he was just a rich asshole thing who got his rocks off this way.
"Don't flatter yourself," she snarled, instead of doing the smart thing. "You bought a book and ten minutes worth of pride." She pointed, shakily, at the book in his hands. "You own that. You don't own me, or my heart, or my life, or any other stupid thing you think you bought. You own a book and something fun to jack off about later, if that's what you do alone in this fucking house. Ten minutes, a book, and a memory. That's all you bought off of me."
And yes, $50,000 was a good price for pride. And yes, she'd be thinking about this stupid motherfucker every day for four years and probably longer. And yes, it hadn't cost him much, in the grand scheme of his life. But people sold a lot more for a lot less.
It stung, deep, that knowledge that she couldn't do it without this kind of humiliation. But if she was going to be selling herself, she'd rather ten minutes now than a lifetime of smiling at assholes in a diner for spare change. He didn't own her any more than those people owned her mother.
But he wasn't finished playing with her just yet, like a cat enjoying itself, torturing a mouse. Her eyes widened at his words, fury pounding in her ears, humiliation burning at her cheeks.
She could probably have taken it like a slap to the face and left. That probably would have been the smart thing to do. Go home and tell herself he was wrong and who cared, he was just a rich asshole thing who got his rocks off this way.
"Don't flatter yourself," she snarled, instead of doing the smart thing. "You bought a book and ten minutes worth of pride." She pointed, shakily, at the book in his hands. "You own that. You don't own me, or my heart, or my life, or any other stupid thing you think you bought. You own a book and something fun to jack off about later, if that's what you do alone in this fucking house. Ten minutes, a book, and a memory. That's all you bought off of me."
And yes, $50,000 was a good price for pride. And yes, she'd be thinking about this stupid motherfucker every day for four years and probably longer. And yes, it hadn't cost him much, in the grand scheme of his life. But people sold a lot more for a lot less.
It stung, deep, that knowledge that she couldn't do it without this kind of humiliation. But if she was going to be selling herself, she'd rather ten minutes now than a lifetime of smiling at assholes in a diner for spare change. He didn't own her any more than those people owned her mother.
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All That Glitters [Closed] - by Tindome - 03-23-2017, 06:28 PM
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RE: All That Glitters - by SolitareLee - 03-23-2017, 10:07 PM
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RE: All That Glitters [Closed] - by Tindome - 03-24-2017, 08:28 AM
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RE: All That Glitters [Closed] - by Tindome - 03-24-2017, 11:34 AM
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RE: All That Glitters [Closed] - by Tindome - 03-24-2017, 02:25 PM
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RE: All That Glitters [Closed] - by Tindome - 03-24-2017, 03:28 PM
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RE: All That Glitters [Closed] - by Tindome - 03-24-2017, 04:25 PM
RE: All That Glitters [Closed] - by SolitareLee - 03-24-2017, 04:39 PM
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RE: All That Glitters [Closed] - by SolitareLee - 03-24-2017, 05:17 PM
RE: All That Glitters [Closed] - by Tindome - 03-24-2017, 06:18 PM
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