Valentino Rodriquez Is an underworld tax collector, collecting tax from America to over the Mexican border, where she encountered, an reserved and shy Lucia. Lucia was stuck in her morbid situation, having to be with different men to survive, that where her savior Valentino came in, a woman who might be responsible or in motive to the death of Lucia parents. *********** Her hand left my wrist and went into her pocket. "How about I pay you 300 to chat with you?" she said, giving me a tight-lipped smile. Why would she want to talk to me? I have nothing to offer her but sex for money. "I can only take it for s*x. Martinez said I'm not permitted to talk to anybody." I lightly murmured. "Well, Martinez isn't your f**king daddy," she growled. I returned my focus to the garments, feeling the paper of the money strike my shoulders. "Take the money." "Just for s*x." "You aren't a pr*stitute?" I looked across at the woman. "How do you know that?" "Are you staying here against your will? Is this the case?" She asked. I shake my head. Martinez saved me. I told myself this every day: he rescued me. I would have died. What's better than being dead, living, and suffering? "Take the money and talk to me."

"So if I say, you should bark like a dog, what are you gonna do, Stella." "Spit on your face." I lashed out. "You barked. Loud. Let's see how loudly that voice barks." She shifted the tiny screen of my hair to look into my eyes. The sly expression on her face belies her extreme lack of character. And how long will these days, months, and years be? "Bark!" She commanded. "Ugh...eugh!" I grunted. I then exhaled. If I didn't bark, I would have failed my father. Do I want to disappoint my father and have him declare bankruptcy, leaving me unable to live that life? No. So, with a timid slide of the dog, I bark. "Woof," I lowered my gaze to her charcoal gentleman shoes-nothing about her screamed gentleman or lady. "Bark louder than that, Stella." "I fucking hate you!" I swore under my breath. "Woof, woof!" "Again. Bark like a proud dog!" "Woof, woof!" "Good. Now, stick your tongue out." ************** Stella life was going haywire-with her father casino and hotel business on the fall. He did what any, father not wanting to be plunged in the wallow of being poor-sold his daughter-Arranged her to marriage, is better way to explained it. Stella, a free spirited and sassy girl, life is about to dragged up like a zip, when she was paired with none other than the high class, wealthy and jerk of a billionaire Mateo Allard.