MEDDIE’S POV My mind remains blank. I just sit here in this wretched dank room, staring blankly at the TV screen. The nauseating scenes of my family’s death still playing in my head, like a broken record player. My mother, brutally beaten to death. My father, brutally beaten to death. My brother, brutally beaten to death… Where did it all start going wrong? The moment I met Damiano? Or the moment I tried to become a spy for Damiano? Making a bigger enemy, in the form of Nikolai… Or was the beginning of it all, the root of the problem? The moment I decided to visit a foreign country… Why did my family have to suffer for my mistakes? Only if I wasn’t such a disobedient brat, only if I had just listened to Nikolai’s warning on that port that day, only if I never existed to begin with…

