Chapter 18 Dare To Challenge

• I still managed to smile, even though it no longer held any warmth.
• I had always believed that place to be merely a spot where one accompanied others in drinking. The more one drank, the more one earned without the necessity to sell oneself, neither body nor soul.
• However, I had not anticipated that place would be a melting pot of all sorts. There were many people whom I, Madeline, and the bar owner simply couldn't turn away.