e smoke and mildew. Through the paper-thin walls,
ress and pulled out her phone. She dial
en times before
said. His voice wa
o the chase. "Indie films, supporting ro
out an hour ago. You're radioactive. Bronson Ortega has blacklisted you ac
ne wen
e phone. Her fingers dug
opened her old laptop and connect
fund-the money she had earned from acting before s
age l
e Balanc
st three years, massive wire transfers had drained her account, funneling the
k of legal documents while she was reading by the pool. Just some tax optimization
d been systematically dismantling her independence
printed into the tiny, filthy bathroom
ink, looking at her pale, holl
hand down t
rmy of lawyers. He would claim she was an unfit, homeless mother. He would take the chi
in his suffocating shadow. She stared at her trembling hands as a thought, more terrifying than homelessness, slithered into her mind like a venomous snake. The only way to sever this chai
r, curling into a tight ball. She wept until her lungs burned, torn between th
tears stopped. Her eyes we
ed her phone, and d
a raspy whisper. "I need to schedule
echoed through the speake
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