I could give up Ellentt, my career, even my dreams, but losing my family? Losing Lucy? That was something I could never bear!
Strangers walked by, casting pitying glances my way, while Nasar stood before me, soaking in my desperation, enjoying every ounce of my humiliation.
It was only people I didn't know who would show me any compassion. They'd pity me, but that was all. It didn't matter.
What I needed wasn't sympathy or pity. What I needed was for my family to be safe, for me to be safe.
'God, they say, is fair, giving everyone a happy, whole family—except for me. I felt like the world had cast me aside, abandoned to live in miserable loneliness.'
"You little brat, your crying is giving me a headache," Nasar sneered, her foot pressing down on my shoulder, pushing me to the cold flo
