This much I can tell you, that little gargoyle you call 'uncle' is a vile monster, and he doesn't care anymore about you than he does one of his lovely prostitutes who has to kick in a third of her earnings so that he can live in the style he's become accustomed to. And as far as overstaying my welcome, M'sieu', I'd be out of here in two minutes if I dared… but you know what would happen to me if I tried? I'd be dead! That's right, dead!" Suddenly, a mean little smile stretched her pretty mouth. "I hope to God you don't think I'm here because I want to be? You'd have to be out of your mind to believe that. I'm here because that foul bastard won me in a poker game from a stateside hood just like him… a gambler named Lou 'The Ace' Fennel… and you don't run away from their kind of scum… you merely deteriorate into a common whore to provide their bread and butter when they're finished with you… or you kill yourself… You pays your money, and you takes your choice."

Antoine stared at her as if his eyes were glued upon her paled, anger-lined face. Every word she spoke had registered, and abruptly, he realized her sincerity. Whether there was any accuracy in what she had said pertaining to Galaxy Mining and Uncle Gaston abandoning him, was still questionable in his mind, but her own position, he suddenly found himself not doubting for a moment. Almost instantly, his heart went out to her, and when he saw the little tears trickling down her cheeks he couldn't help himself. He opened his arms and she burst inside them with a sob.

"There, there," he whispered into her ear as she cried against his chest, the scent of her hair filling his nostrils as she clung to him and he held her, smoothing his hand down her back, caressing the silken material of her gown to feel the soft flesh and indentation of her barely perceptible spine beneath. Her full, pointed breasts dug into his chest, while the little round bowl of her belly rested snugly beneath his own, and as he held her, she inched tighter against him until her warm, full thighs clung tightly to his hard, lean ones, and her pelvis and belly ground against, and shared the length of his stiffening cock.