At the view I stole a glance, my heart thumped in anxiety for the secret Vera might keep behind me. If it was really her, the girl in the man's embrace, it devastated me with the bitter fact of her intimate relationship with that adult man; she was just seventeen anyway.
My steps took me away from that huge house where the gate had been tightly shut now. I gave a final look at that building which I then abandoned for my work; but the curiosity still followed me even until I was on my half way home.
My hand randomly thrust my skirt pocket; and it reached the object which I found as a memo someone slipped inside it without my notice. My pupils dilated at the handwriting and the name written on it; it was from Vera containing her implore to save her from the perils she was undergoing.
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