LEILA
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I waited as every muscle in my body coiled with a tension.
The silence that follows my scream and tears is so obvious as my heart continued to beat faster against my ribs.
Then, I heard the thud of footsteps approaching and the door behind me is pushed open, pushing me away from it, two men walked in, their face so grim and impassive.
They didn’t dare look anywhere except for their task as they moved towards Tracy’s still form and roughly drew her away.
I watched them go, my gaze fixed on her small body being dragged across the cold stone floor as her eyes stared back at me, vacant and lifeless, and the full weight of my guilt crashed down on me again.
If I had just gone along with it, if I hadn’t been so desperate, so damn stubborn… she would still be alive. My reckl
