Episode 14 Vera's story

~ MISHKA~

I can’t even imagine the suffering she must have gone through when her husband brought his girlfriend home. When she found out his girlfriend was pregnant, and when she witnessed her son calling another woman “mother”

How can someone hurt themselves so much to save someone’s house? How can she leave her child, whom she carried inside her for nine months? I didn’t realise I was crying the whole time while listening to her story.

Dadu wiped my tears with his thumb and smiled sadly. “What happened next? Did she die?” I asked, fearing his answer.

Leo looked down, and taking a deep breath, he replied,

“Soon the ambulance arrived, and we took her to the hospital. Because of excessive bleeding, doctors performed immediate surgery. We were waiting outside the operation theatre when a nurse came from inside and gave us the letter that Vera was clutching in her hand tightly before she fell unconscious.”

“What was written in the letter?” Mishka asked, looking at Leo nervously, and