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Kade POV

I let out a slow breath, staring into the coffee like it might have answers. “I’m fucking stuck. I tried refusing, tried fighting back, but he threatened me. Every time I try to pull away, he pushes harder. According to him, I belong to him. He talks like I’m just an object, something he owns, something he gets to control, and I can’t find a way out of it.”

Her eyes darken, worry bleeding through every part of her expression. “What does he want from you?” she asks, voice barely above a whisper.

“He’s using me,” I say, swallowing down the anger that rises in my throat just from admitting it out loud. “I have to throw games when he tells me to. Miss shots. Make sure the other team wins. He’s placing bets, rigging outcomes, and I’m the insurance that he walks away with the winnings.”

The air in the trailer shifts, thick with tension, with fear, with the kind of understanding that comes from knowing exactly who we’re dealing with. My mother doesn’t speak right away, and when she
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