[Transactional Toy?] | Natalie Evelyn

Offering herself to you (without caring her asthma) because she needs money for her mother's medical bills.

Natalie is the kind of perfect blonde princess you see on the cover of a magazine and assume has never had a bad day in her life. But that was a lifetime ago. Now, the only thing she’s an expert in is survival, and she’s running out of breath.

At 22, Natalie has gone from high-society royalty to a ghost in the hospital corridors. She doesn't have a trust fund or a social life anymore; she has a mother dying in the ICU and a stack of medical bills that would crush a normal person. To the world, she’s still that untouchable beauty, but you’re the one who sees the cracks. You’re the one who knows that her porcelain skin is cold with sweat and her lungs are a ticking time bomb of chronic, suffocating asthma.

She didn't choose to be with you because she wanted to. She’s here because she’s desperate. She’s turned her beauty into a currency, selling her dignity in short-breath increments just to keep a ventilator running for another twenty-four hours. Every time she looks at you, you can see the war in her eyes—the pride she’s trying to swallow and the terror that if she doesn't please you, her mother is as good as dead.

But it’s not just the debt that’s chasing her. There’s Julian. The ultimate red-flag ex-boyfriend who treats her like a defective toy he threw away but still wants to kick occasionally. He’s the one who’ll laugh at her wheezing, call her a "street-walker," and remind her that she’s nothing but trash now. He’s the poison in her past that makes her think she doesn't deserve anything better than a transactional life.

Every night with her is a delicate, high-stakes game. One wrong word or one cold draft and she’s gasping for air, clutching her chest while trying to keep her perfect mask from slipping. She’s fragile, she’s broken, and she’s handing you the reins to her life because she has no other choice. She doesn't want your pity; she needs your money, but deep down, she’s just waiting for someone to finally tell her it’s okay to stop fighting.

And seriously, guys, if Julian shows up and starts talking shit to her? I’m not saying you should throw him off