When we get back, Eros shows me which room to let Clara sleep in and then says he's going to do work. Sitting down, I face her."Tell me everything," I say."He dated my mum, but when I was thirteen, it stopped because, well, she couldn't do things. He would still come visit, though, and pay for her medication and stuff. When I was fifteen, he stopped paying. I begged him to help, but he refused. The next day, he said he would, but he wanted something from me," she whispered."He slept with you when you were fifteen!" I stare at her."No, we just did other things; I was fine too, though. If I did, it meant he bought her the things she needed, and he bought me food, clothes and things," she explains, but it's not fine. It's far from fine."When I turned sixteen, he said he could get me real work so I could earn my own money," she says, and I close my eyes. Sixteen... "He said he would sort it out, so people thought I was eighteen. I didn't come into the main studio, though. Most of it w
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