I nodded and said, "Absolutely. I would very much like to show my appreciation for all you've done for me and my family. I'm a good cook and...well, you already know where my other talents lie."

What our business was and where my talents lay was that for the past year, I had served Mister Richards and a cabal of well off citizens of our town as a whore, offering sex in exchange for keeping our mortgage paid – the recession having cost me my job, and almost costing my family the roof over their head. My husband's job had been cut back to almost half-time and we'd have never...