Chapter 6

Helena

Matthew is here very early, standing in front of my door after knocking until I answered him, me after a sleepless night thinking about the mystery man from last night that I will probably never see again, I hardly slept at all, he enters like a hurricane, he looks at me like he sees a monster and i really should be one my hair was a horror after the amount of hairspray to set it, the makeup that hadn't completely taken off and i really looked like a panda.

- Miss Baum, I came to make you an advantageous proposal, given the financial state of your family, I see a great alternative so that you can get them out of the situation they are in - he says looking me up and down and being very direct - and you look horrible , you didn't take your makeup off and wash that hair.

- What situation are you talking about sir Matthew, I don't understand what situation is this, what are you talking about - What is this guy talking about?

The only thing that goes through my mind.

- Miss Baum, the debt today is around 680 thousand reais, and as we know you cannot pay it and in a few days you will lose the farm.

- What are you talking about, what place are you referring to?

– this Matthew must have had too much to drink last night, he can only.

- Miss Baum, I know that if your parents don't pay, the bank will take the place to auction in two months - he says looking at me.

- You can only be crazy, my parents' farm has no debts, and we don't want to sell anything - I'm a strong woman, but I feel tears welling up on my face - What a lie you're inventing.

- Helena, are you crying dear?

- he comes to me and holds my hands - You don't know about the debt?

Did your parents not charge you?

- Matthew, what debt are you talking about?

And I swear to you that I don't know of any debt.

Matthew takes his briefcase, and takes some papers out of it, and hands it to me, I scan my eyes quickly and see, two loans at a bank made one in my dad's name and one in the name of Pedro my brother.

My head spins and I go crazy with rage, sadness that I've been lied to all this time, by my family.

How could they borrow that amount?

Oh my God, how are they going to pay for all this, even if I sell everything I have, I won't even get half of what they owe.

- Helena dear, your family may lose the place, as you can see, but I have a proposal that can save your family.

I hope you accept, for the sake of your family - he took other papers from his folder and handed them to me - this is an agreement with all the clauses, the Sheik wants you for a month, at his disposal, being your escort, with the expenses of trips paid for by him, but in one of the clauses you have to be willing to have sex with him and be available, and he is willing to pay one million reais for this thirty days.

I was shocked, with those words, I'm not a prostitute or escort to accept these things, and stay with a disgusting old man, for 30 days at his disposal for whatever he wants to do to me, and if he's a sadist and wants to beat me.

But I also think about the madness that my parents got into, and Pedro my brother, how he let all this happen and they didn't tell me that they were going through financial problems of that size.

- Helena, it's all very difficult for you I know - he hugs me while I cry - it must be difficult, and I understand, it was a blow for you about the debts, I thought you knew everything but I see you don't, the proposal of the sheik and his crazy life that can benefit you, accept the proposal I know that only then you can help your family, it will only be a month, soon he will get sick of you, maybe in those 30 days until he finds another victim, and you will be free and millionaire.

- Matthew I'm not a prostitute, how am I going to do that.

I can't – tears run down my face and my world crashes down on my head.

Matthew asks me to call the bank and see how the situation is.

Desperate I call the manager of the bank, Mr. Paulo, and he explains everything to me, Dad made the first loan and gave the farm's machinery as a guarantee, which at first my parents paid the installments and then stopped paying that's where the Pedro's loan to pay off the first loan with the second, and again the installments were not paid where the debt doubled in size.

And that unfortunately the deadlines were running out and they would lose and have to vacate the site in two months.

- Matthew what am I going to do!?

- Helena dear, can I give my opinion?

If you really like your family accept it, or they will be on the street, and change some clauses of the contract - he looks at my eyes full of tears - Ask the Sheik so that I can accompany you during the trip, I will help and protect you - and pull me in for a hug - i'll protect you darling.

- Matthew I see no other alternative, and will he accept my clauses?

I need to get my family out of all this mess or I wouldn't subject myself to this.

- Of course he's crazy about you, he'll easily accept everything you impose, the only clause that doesn't give up is that you have sex with him and accompany him in some events and also travel wherever he goes, the rest he doesn't care -he said. a movement of the hands - billionaire men like him my dear, want the prize they crave without worrying how they get to them, sorry for the words but unfortunately that's what happens.

- I feel dirty doing this.

- All of us who work for billionaires like Sheik feel that way, but we have bills to pay and people who depend on us so unfortunately, we often have to subject ourselves to certain things.

- I just think about how my family never told me anything about this whole problem, why they didn't ask for help.

- My beautiful, if they asked you for help it wouldn't change much would it - and Matthew really was right, as I could help with my bank account.

After a lot of crying, I accepted my destiny and decided that I would help my family, we couldn't lose the place where we lived our whole lives and where our grandparents fought so hard to conquer, our obligation was to preserve everything that was there.

We reviewed the contract, and Matthew helped me rewrite some clauses since I had no idea how it all worked.

Matthew was a very good and focused person and amazingly I discovered that Matthew was that Greek God and gay, much to the women's unhappiness and men's happiness.

I found a friend, a contract, some trips and an unlimited card for me to buy whatever I want, and Matthew assured that the Sheik is well endowed, because he himself almost fainted when he saw it and that I will be very well in that regard.

According to him, I would win in this contract.

As I was on vacation and was already in São Paulo, it would be much easier and no one would need to know anything, especially my family, and the payment of debts at the bank would be resolved as soon as I signed the contract.

- Well my redneck I think it's perfect and just sign - Matthew joked with me - If I were you I'd still ask for a few more million, and he'd definitely pay - he laughingly said - we'll travel tomorrow to his apartment in New York which is a luxury , facing Central Park you will love it, it will be a very good experience, don't think you are going to the redneck gallows, because if I went to that gallows, I would die happy.

- Matt, you're very funny, you know, I'm here thinking about what to do and you're cute.

- Dear!

Then you tell me if that gallows isn't enough to stop the traffic in New York - his laugh echoed through the room - Now let's see what you're going to take from those awful clothes of yours and let's buy everything new there in the Big Apple, you have a card without limits to pay for everything you want to buy.

'Matt I'm not going to spend that crazy old man's money' he lets out another laugh.

- Honey you can buy whole New York and there's still left - he waves his arms - there's a lot left, you have no idea how much money this man has, he's a Sheik my beautiful redneck, you can buy everything you want and a little more - I look at him and my face is sad and he sits next to me – Helena didn't say that to make you sad, but unfortunately it's reality, he buys me, buys you and buys everything he wants, unfortunately that's the way things are work in the capitalist world we live in, the strongest buy the weakest and we all end up having a price - he gets up and starts walking around the room - You know what, let's have dinner, we stayed in this room all day crying and moaning, now we let's eat and drink something to relax, because tomorrow we will be in New York.

According to what Matt said, the Sheik came yesterday after I signed the contract, he took the contract personally to his lawyers, and he had some matters to take care of before we met, because as Sophie had told me he is a very important man and has a small country of his own and a lot of business around the world, he travels a lot and doesn't like the media very much.