Forbidden Love: My Daddy's Best Friend novel Chapter 155

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The room is silent, except for my heavy breathing because I am freaking the fuck out. I know Eros didn’t want me to speak to her alone, but it would be rude to refuse to. 

“My family are very important to me, Alexis,” she says, and I nod. 

“I can totally understand that, and I can understand if you have reservations and worries about me, especially because of what my line of work is. Anyone would be, especially if they haven’t been involved. in the industry, to know about it,” I explain. 

“You’re right. I have reservations and worries, and I have no idea how the industry works. I would like to know why. What was your reason for joining it?” She looks at me and waits. 

I’m best being honest, I’ve no idea what Eros has told her or what will be said, but I know me being divorced won’t help with her liking me at all. Neither will the debt I used to be in. 

“I married young; by the age of twenty, my husband had run up large amounts of debt and disappeared with the money. For a year, I tried to get out of it, but it was virtually impossible,” I explain, and her eyes. widen. I decide to keep going before I stop and don’t tell her everything. “Joining the industry was about earning enough to pay off those debts. I had my parent’s house, but after I married, of course, it was in his name, so it was taken to recover some of the debt. I also 

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joined it because, I was young, I thought it would be fun,” I explain. 

She stares at me, and I know she hates me more now than she had 

before. 

“You thought it would be fun. That made it sound like it wasn’t?” She asks. 

“It was, to begin with, but the longer you’re in there the more the cracks show. The abuse happened towards the younger or quieter workers because they were too afraid to stand up for themselves. The industry lost its appeal, but that was down to working conditions,” I explain, and she nods. 

I wait for her to speak, and the silence lasts too long. I can feel it burning my bones, and my mind is on overdrive, thinking and considering every tiny detail. 

“How safe is the industry?” She asks. I go to ask her in which aspect. she means, but I decide to answer all of them, and then she knows. 

“Workers have to have health checks frequently. Proof of contraception must be shown as well. The women in the industry should be safe, but each company is different, they operate their own rules, and such. The one I was at, wasn’t run by a man with morals, someone had to speak up for the women who were too afraid to,” I say. 

“Your friend Clara?” She asks, and I know Eros told her that my friend had issues and was staying here. 

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“She is an unfortunate case but something that does happen. She knew the person who ran the place since she was a child, and he took advantage of that.” I still want to find him and hurt him, but that’s a bit hard, considering he’s surrounded by metal bars. 

“And my son?” she asks. “How did that happen? How did you two meet?” 

My mouth opens and closes. I don’t want to tell her because it paints Eros as a bad man, and he isn’t. Still, I know Eros doesn’t lie and is brutally honest. I just don’t want her to think of him in a bad way. Sure, he is her son, but he was essentially paying for me. 

“My contract with my manager stated I had to do work if they were producing and editing it. Eros was the first time that I realised that that line in the contract could be used to manipulate women. We usually work with other porn stars, those who work as I did and get paid. Eros, was the exception, he was paying to shoot a video with me,” I explain and her eyes widen. 

She looks angry, and I need to defend him. 

“That changed when I met Eros. When he found out how much I would make from the amount he offered, he refused to do it when my manager took most of the money.” I say, and she relaxes. 

“So he didn’t pay to sleep with you?” 

“He paid to create a video with me; I don’t see it as him paying to sleep 

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with me,” I state, and she nods. I get this won’t sound great, but your son is amazing. He could have ignored how much I got and paid my manager and done it. He didn’t. He cut out my manager and even offered to pay my buyout fee so I would be free of the industry,” I explain. 

“I can see you like him Alexis, through all our conversations you have. defended him more than yourself, that is interesting,” she replies and I nod. 

“I will fight for those I care about. I can live with people’s thoughts of me, but I won’t allow people to look at those close to me in a bad way; I will defend them.” 

She smiles and nods.