ELEANOR’S POV I heard Elisa’s last words to me as I parted with her. I was angry, mad but above all sad that my trusted friend had been lying to me all along. She must be shameless to have brought my family into this. I wasn’t going to ask dad anything. Hurting Howard was enough and I am not willing to make them distrust me further. “Eleanor…you have been a fool all along…” I muttered sadly to myself. In all these, tears refused to drop from my eyes. I was just walking with nowhere in mind as my direction. I felt my shoulder brush past people but I neither knew what they looked like nor when they passed as I felt only numbness. “Listen to your friend. She might have hurt you but you don’t think she would ever lie to you with your family…” a voice said within me. It was that stra

