Secrets and Love

direction. She had been standing on Fen Street, one of Silvertown's numerous red-light districts, wi

s bad,” a red-hai

lump, dark-hair

ly. “They’re ruining the trade by underpricing because they aren’t int

iscussion was launched about h

r feelings of discontent, but the newcomers weren’t to

get men, you old hag!” A frog-faced

up. “Who are you talkin

lleagues urged restraint. A fight would further re

e rabble. It was the same bickering and fight

the drama. She put out her cigarette and considered her options. S

her decision and began walking away fr

und about a serial strangler on the prowl. She knew t

eld her as a car pulled up towar

, “how about going to y

alse confidence. “As lo

nd dollars

ow

t and waved it at her, grinn

thousand dollars wa

o do?” She asked

His grin widened, showi

good to be true, plus the look in this creepy-looking guy's

ve in silence to her boarding house, located on a dark street littered wit

ney and get down t

ame, and heart-shaped face, with round dark eyes, a small stra

or this, sweet heart?”

something strange, a rope around her ne

He squeezed her harder. Rachel Kas hadn’t spent four years on the street without

nose bloody, eyes blazing, and charged towards her. Panicking,

shaky with adrenaline, till she saw the widening pool of

he fled from the room

bad!” she muttered,

ould I d

the po

hey beli

itely

uld help her escape. Pulling herself togeth

d on the third rin

llo

, I nee

u?” He was in

end of m

here in te

, Richie Johnson’s motorc

sked anxiously, hugging he

A client... He attacked

wn, Ray,

tra helmet, and she

at an all-night café. They

l me wha

e story, showing the

; I don’t really kn

, they might not believe me;

people like us. The jerk deserved it, th

on the run from her abusive foster parents. Richie had taken a romantic interest in her, but the fact that he was nearly a decade

d an ATM; I’ll be righ

utes later, he was back.

's all my

ere, and the cost of living is low. Change your identity and start o

ure you're n

tude, "$3000?“ she whi

Richie I

die, come on, I'll drop

ach out if you ever

gently held her cheeks, and kissed her lips. She responded, then hasti

uttered. She liked Richie very much, though, but it wouldn’t work be

ttention to her

about starting a new life, but how? “Well, if any

would regret ma