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I put the paper down, my heart sinking so low it was at risk of tearing through my asshole and hitting the floor. So they didn’t want favours or money for the pictures, they wanted me for something I could guess.

I looked at the man across the table, he betrayed no emotion as he calmly lay a cheap phone in front of me.

I stared at it for what felt like an age, I am not naive, I knew exactly where this would lead if I took that phone and got in that car. As I ran through the best and worst case scenarios I found nothing I liked but also nothing I liked less than the future I was sure to have if I didn’t take the offer.

There was no time to talk to Marcus, no time to really think at all, I had to make my mind up right now.

I picked up the phone, it felt like a lead weight in my hand as I watched the man across the table quirk a smile.

As we stood up and began to walk out of the cafe I thought about the best and worst cases for what lay ahead of me. As it would turn out the rest of that day would hold events that were not my worst case scenario.

Although that really is not saying much.