by Ivy Clyde
“Maria, oh, Maria…”
She probably didn’t even understand what she was agreeing to by keeping quiet about the money she was getting out of her account for Egor. Perhaps, she realized it much later but it had been too late then. By then, it had been impossible for her to come out of the web Egor had trapped her in. In the end, she chose to give up her life and take the secret of her abuse to the grave.
My body shook with powerful sobs as I picked up the laptop once more.
Wiping my eyes away, I selected a few of the videos that showed Egor confessing to stealing the money and uploaded them into one of my cloud storage platforms. They were proof that would wipe some of the dirt from Maria’s name. At the very least, she would be freed from being called a thief and a betrayer.
In her own naïve way, she’d done her best to protect the family that had raised her. She’d stayed quiet while Egor hurt her, thinking she was doing it for them.
Finally, I saw the woman Maria had been. She was innocent, completely innocent. She believed her purity was forever maligned. I wish she hadn’t been so sheltered, that she realized what Egor did to her was criminal. He was the one who was dirty. Not her. She wasn’t the one to be blamed for his evilness.
I was so lost in my thoughts that I never realized someone else had entered the room.
A sharp crack sounded behind me, followed by an intense ache on the back of my neck that had my vision blackening out in a second. With the last remnants of my consciousness, I felt my body slumping to the floor…
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About Ivy
Ivy is an Electrical engineer by profession. She started writing fanfiction in her spare time and after a whole year of writing; she decided to start writing an original series with her own characters.
Although, work and tight deadlines often have her drinking coffee, she is a tea-lover at heart. She loves to read, but keeps taking trips to Hogwarts now and then. (Who could miss JKR’s lovely invitation?) Her favorite current TV shows are the Witcher and V Wars. And she also can never stop watching Friends!
