Staring back from the photograph was none other than Helen's eldest daughter.
Richard knew everyone; his connections ran far and wide.
In no time at all, he'd tracked her down in that remote countryside town.
Her life there was cruel and hard. Local thugs and hooligans bullied her nonstop.
When she spotted one of Richard's men, she naively took him to her mother, hoping she would come pick her up.
But the cruel truth was that she never had a place in Helen's carefully planned future.
I turned and left with Richard without a single glance back.
"This is the man you gave your whole heart to? What a scum."
If this had been the old me, I would have argued with him, pushed back at least a little.
That love I felt back then? It was real, once upon a time.
But now all I could do was let
