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55. The Enemy
"The saddest thing about betrayal is that it never comes from your enemies"
~D.S.
"Valentina?" Gloria whispers doubtfully in a hoarse voice, her eyes were squinted as she stared in my direction.
Her eyes widened when she realised I was really there "Oh Valentina!" She cries, slowly getting up from her place on the floor.
I couldn't help but concentrate on the groaning person that was tied to a chair behind her. I had found Gloria laying her head on that beaten man's lap and wailing loudly.
A sudden force has me stumbling back a few steps, Gloria's unexpected hug pulls me out of my thoughts, I gaze at her as she tightens her grip around me making me encircle my arms around her as well.
She was murmuring something accompanied by her cries making it hard for me to grasp her words, the situation, the b
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