Liora sat on her small bed with shaking hands, she held her phone tight with a worried look on her face. Her fingers trembled slightly around the device. She held the necklace around her neck in an attempt to calm herself down.

The small pendant felt cold against her skin, but she held it tightly as if it could steady the storm raging inside her chest.

5 days had passed since James and his boss came and she still did not have the money she promised them. The memory of that day still made her st