I can feel my toes going numb from fear. My body turns to stone, and my throat clamps in a spasm when I hear the words of my friend’s uncle: “Forget about your home. You won’t go back there anymore. I just came for a wedding. A foreign eastern country met me with the heat of scorching sun—but what happened next was like a nightmare. He wouldn’t let me fly home. He left me in his house, calling me a slut. And the reason was some kind of nonsense. He mistook me for a street girl and decided to teach me a lesson. Naïl Khaddad. He wanted my body for two weeks, but in the end I gave him much more… Leaving with a broken heart and a small secret… Contains profanity.