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50. The Promise

作者: Meminger
last update 最終更新日: 2025-06-27 23:34:35

Ella’s Point of View

The small room was a prison of shadows, its bare walls closing in as I paced, my boots scuffing the warped wooden floor. The zip ties had been replaced by a single manacle chaining my ankle to the cot’s frame, its cold metal biting my skin with every step, a cruel leash limiting my world to a few feet.

The boarded window above let in no light, only the faint howl of wind through the forest outside, a reminder of how far I was from Seattle, from hope.

Night had fallen, the air thick with mildew and despair, the cabin’s silence broken only by the drip of a leaky pipe and my own ragged breaths. My thoughts spun, a frantic carousel—Lily, waiting, her trusting eyes haunting me; Shawn, his grin a fading dream; and Marcus, the monster who’d stolen my freedom.

I’d tried every escape plan my mind could conjure—prying the window boards, testing the chain, searching for anything sharp—but the room was a fortress, built for this moment, for me.

My heart pounded, a mix of f
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Eva Hormigos
I hope Ella will be saved and reunites with Lily, files for a divorce and have a future with Shawn. Marcus should realize his mistakes and gets treated. He is mentally sick. I think he has the right to know Lily.
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