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The Veil of Silence

The opulence in the room weighed down on Ella as she faced Alexander; the tension between the two was palpable. The USB drive was on the desk before her; the physical evidence of her sin, but the truth of Lily’s existence was buried deeper in the unsaid.

“Ella,” Alexander’s voice was hard and cold against the silence. “How could you risk all that we have worked for?”

Fists were tightly squeezed at her sides, and Ella’s nails dug into her palms. “I had my reasons,” she said softly, almost inaudibly.

“Reasons?” Alexander asked bitterly, with a dangerous glint in his eyes. ‘’For what reasons could there be, that would warrant such a betrayal?

Ella felt her heart racing, the truth about Lily which she wanted to scream aloud, but could not. But she restrained herself from saying it because she knew that the information would destabilize the delicate reality that they both existed in.

‘No, it is not,’ she said firmly, looking straight into my eyes.

Alexander’s laughter was grim, which
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