The Arcadia Family · Vol 3
The Heart That Did Not Break
In Skenia, everyone has a price. Bia has only one thing that is not for sale: her faithfulness to a lover far away at the mines.
- Series
- Skenia Complex
- Contents
- 37 chapters, 19,505 words
- Characters
- Bia
- Transparency
- SI-assisted work
About this work
Bia, 22, stands eight hours a day behind the most expensive perfume counter in Skenia Mall. Every day she sprays fragrance on the wrists of women who come in with their lovers. Every day she smiles. Her own lover, Adam, works on a distant mining island. There is signal only at the top of the hill, at nine at night, with luck. Bia's messages often stop at a single checkmark. Her birthday passes without a word. The rent goes up, the money she sends her mother cannot be late, and she carries it all alone. To Bia, all of that is ordinary. In Skenia, faithfulness is the greatest luxury. Then there is Imam, the restroom attendant who always knows when Bia has not eaten. There is Karin, the manager who believes everything comes with conditions. And there is a customer, a Member of Parliament, who buys the most expensive bottle without looking at the price and tells Bia she does not smile like the others. How long can a heart hold out before it breaks?
