Chapter 30
Maria
Anxiety ripped through my veins and my hands quivered as I made my way to the witness box — I was no witness, I was the victim.
Turning around, I looked at James who was staring right at my rapist. He wasn’t looking at me and his eyes held something strange, they were filled with anger—but towards who?
It all happened in a few minutes. The whole court had turned upside down as I passed my rapist. The courage inside me vanished away as he stepped and tried to terrified me. Only then I realized that he was no longer chained and there was a knife in his hand.
Terror ran through my body, I felt my own heart choking my breaths. For a mere moment, I thought that this all was going to end now but gunshots ripped through the air.
The bullet didn’t touch me.
It went str
