ANABEL KING is 30 and is portrayed by KARLA SOUZA.
Became a prostitute after having owed the Organisation more money than she owned.
The trade off: her body. It was this or let them take her apart for organs.
If she makes it to the end of this year, she figures her debt should be paid off.
Anabel was brought into this world by her single mother in a small village located on the outskirts of the Mexican-American border. Born out of wedlock and to a girl just shy of her seventeenth year, Anabel had always felt a bit out of place. Even before her mother had reached her second trimester, she was shunned and disowned from her family in Mexico City, forcing Sylvia to create a new life for her daughter. If it wasn’t for the kind Brit that openly welcomed Sylvia into his home, there’s a great possibility that Anabel may have never made it through labor. From there on out, they were a family: Sylvia, Anabel, and Jaime King. While Jaime was only in North America doing research on climate control for a couple of years, he knew that leaving the girls behind meant leaving them out for their death.
So at the age of three, Anabel started a new journey that led her to London. From there on out, she succeeded. A bright young girl who excelled at almost everything she tried. Perhaps she was just blessed, but Sylvia gave all the credit to Jaime. He encoded a sense of hard-work and perseverance into the growing girl (even when it came down to mundane tasks such as doing the dishes). Undoubtedly, she was a good student and an even better daughter.
So why did she feel so out of place? Maybe it was the fact that her father figure was more like a boss, rather than a parental guide. Or possibly her abnormalities were hidden in her mother– who barely knew ten words of English while Anabel was growing up. Show and tell days were hard in school and parent-teacher conferences weren’t any easier: “Here’s my immigrant mother and Mr. Pseudo-Father Figure.” But despite it all, she pushed through. She continued to show her gratitude towards Jaime and spent every free chance to teach her mother English and communication skills. Her grammar school days flew past and by the time she reached graduation, she could hold a steady conversation with her mother in both Spanish and English.
Eventually, Anabel found herself in University. She surrounded herself with the kind of people just like her: hard-working, honest, and helpful beings. Her academic focus was the English language and her extracurriculars were spent helping the Spanish speakers. Life was fun, life was easy, and life remained normal. Until the moment that ripped chaos through her life.
A single automobile accident causing one fatality resulted in Anabel losing the woman of her world. Her mother was dead upon impact and no matter how longed she prayed, her mother was gone forever. She blamed herself, she blamed the other driver, and she blamed God. Despite all of that, it didn’t change anything. She needed to escape the new hell she was living and the night of the funeral, Anabel did the unthinkable– she dosed herself an evening full of complete and utter numbness. And as imagined, this became a regular routine.
Doped up and high a majority of the time, Anabel quickly became addicted. Morphine was her preferred poison, but when she had a craving, she took what she could get. For most of her life, she was blissfully unaware of the dangers that lurked in London, including the Organisation– but when she needed a high, it was her 24/7 convenient store. Her addiction soon became more than she could bear. With all of her money down the drain, refusal to seek help, and the Organisation on her tail– she had to do the inevitable: pay off her dues.
Anabel refuses to say his name– but Nicolas Hyde was the key to solving her debt. It’s been over a year since being put under his wing in hopes of sparing her life and at this point, she wishes she would have taken the other ultimatum. She’s a dead girl walking either way seeing that night after night spent on her back isn’t really living. Still in denial of where she ended up and even more out of fear, Anabel refuses to reach out for help. Her mindset now: make it through these next few months, and life will be back to normal. If only she knew how wrong she was.
+ resilient, obliging, clever, honest, and humble
- insecure, detached, wary, scheming, and anxious
Lachlan Hall— while she’s never actually met him face-to-face, she knows of him, and knows that it was him that got her into debt, no matter how unaware of her he may be. For that, she blames him for everything that’s happened, although she’s not sure what she’d do if she ever met him.
Nicolas Hyde— she might loathe Lachlan, but that’s nothing compared to the stomach curdling fear she feels around Nicolas. He tells her that interest has piled up on her debt, and while she’s sure it hasn’t, she can’t bring herself to talk back out of fear of what he’ll do to her. He gave her a choice: keep working for God knows how long, or spend one night with him. Just the thought of that makes her want to throw up and her knees wobble, but staying stuck here is almost as unthinkable.
