Jade

Jade had never been an ordinary woman.From the age when others learned to tie their hair in pigtails, she was learning to survive.Raised in a marginal neighborhood of Marseille, without a mother and with a father who disappeared more than he appeared, life was a test of endurance from a young age.She was beautiful, not beautiful in the simple, aesthetic sense, but with a beauty that stopped time.Her green eyes, deep and penetrating, promised not only seduction, but betrayed an old pain, a heavy silence, an entire world hidden behind her long eyelashes.At seventeen, poverty and loneliness made her vulnerable.A network of human trafficking saw in her what everyone else saw, a rare pearl.They knew how to convince her, how to trap her in their net, how to transform her from a child into prey.They offered her money, clothes, the illusion of love.And Jade entered that game, believing she had no other option.For years she sold her body, but hid her soul in an untouchable corner.No one got there.No man, no fake smile.But Jade dreamed.She still dreamed.Every night, after the city lights went out, she wrote another story in her mind.One in which she was not a commodity, but a whole woman.One in which she was loved not for what she offered, but for what she was.One in which she was not only beautiful, but also free.That dream took shape on a seemingly ordinary day, in a restaurant in Paris.She was twenty-six years old and trying, with her last strength, to cling to normality.Then Charles appeared, the arrogant, impulsive, dangerous undercover.He spoke badly of her, wanted to buy her with money, ordered her, tried to humiliate her.But Jade was no longer a scared little girl.She stood up to him and hit him.It was the moment when two destinies, until then doomed, changed.From that conflict grew an incredible, impossible and yet real love.A love that went through illness, through blood, through forgiveness, through death.Jade was diagnosed with terminal cancer.But she found salvation in the arms of the most unlikely man, a former underworld figure who transformed from love.