Seeing Hannah again was at a business event six months later. Over the past months, she had been making sporadic payments to me to repay her debt, and she had recently cleared it. I no longer had anyone keeping tabs on her.

However, I didn’t expect to run into her here. Among the attendees were executives from three companies, including one older man, who was well over forty, with a bloated belly and oily hair.

Hannah was sitting next to that man, being force-fed drinks by the people around her. Red wine, white wine, and beer were all mixed together, flowing into her mouth one glass after another. Every time...