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VARYA’S POVThe walls of the hospital room were pale, and the hard fluorescent lights made it feel sterile. I sat in an uncomfortable chair, staring blankly at a hanging IV drip while what Kylo revealed spun around in my head.It was not until his words got through to me like a knife that I started to bring back fragments of the deep-buried memories.Kylo had revealed everything about the accident—my father’s death and my mother’s life-changing injuries as a result of Mr. Anderson driving their car into the side of our truck.The information itself was mind-boggling but what shook me to my core is that Kylo, my husband, was still that very young boy from that night.It had been years since I'd gone into detail about the accident. These memories were closed off from each other; they couldn't be opened up for examination because they were too traumatizing for me to remember them again.However, with Kylo's revelations and bits of my past coming together again, there is now something fro

Kylo's PovMy vehicle sped down urban routes where all I could hear was a soft buzzing from the machinery and patterns echoing my car’s tires on the pavement.There was an enormous load resting on my back considering how stressful life can be at times yet; a daunting activity awaited me: discussing with Dora her involvement in Varya’s abduction case.This incident becomes more complicated just as much as it reminds me that she was once my friend and it is very evident that she played a critical role in this entire disaster.Dora had always had a thing for me, an obsession that had bordered on unsettling. I hadn’t realized how far she was willing to go until now.The jealousy and resentment she harbored towards Varya—my wife—had pushed her to orchestrate a kidnapping, a crime that would forever alter our lives.Dora had been working behind Theo and his wife, Tia, pulling the strings in a twisted drama of betrayal and malice.As I navigated through the city, the memories of my past with

Grandpa let out a laugh and shook his head.Kylo sneered, “Oh, what do I have to face? A wife who has the audacity to laugh at me and a grandfather who has the nerve to bring her new husbands!”What was odd was that with that small change, I felt a kind of cheerful lightness in the room, a lightness I had not felt in a long time. For a moment it is as though all the horrors of life outside are not a reality, the hatred, the suffering, the dread.It was as if everything vanished into thin air because all that mattered was this simple embrace of the two people who cared for me most in this world.Laughing as though I wanted to split my sides I ended up having to clear my eyes of tears and look at them both. “I don’t need a new husband, Grandpa,”I said jokingly, looking at Kylo and smiling at him gently. “I’m quite happy with this one. ”Kylo’s features relaxed, and looking deep into his green eyes, I realized that the connection between us was stronger than it had ever been in the past

I was sitting in the living room and looking at the blinking TV screen, not really hearing the voice of a news anchor. It had been a tiring day with Kylo as we put together all the leads that were to lead us into confrontation.Now, however, while watching as events unfolded on my TV set I felt overburdened by the weight of what had come to pass.Kylo’s pursuit for justice had known no limits and it was through his dedication that he discovered something horrifying, Mr. Anderson, always a looming figure in my life, was actually responsible for causing a car accident that killed my father and left my mother hospitalized.The fact that he was behind the wheel of the truck, which changed my life forevermore was incomprehensible to me.An unending stream of news was being shown. The evidence had been gathered by the investigative team and now, the public faced the shocking truth about what Mr Anderson did.I sat observing those presenters who were talking about conspiracy theories; they m

For the first time since my recovery, I went outside the house and the cool breeze touched my face. The sky was that peculiar color that dazzles in pictures but isn’t very inspiring when all that you can think of is the chaos in your life.The sun, the wind, the sounds, and the smells should have been as liberating as the stench of the place I was a survivor of what Theo and his family had done to me. In fact, every time I took a step toward the car, I felt like I was stepping into a fight I knew I would not be able to win.Kylo was standing near me, saying nothing but just being there, which was comforting enough. He had wanted to come along with me, even when I had wanted to go alone, as this was something that I wanted to do myself. But now when we approached the police station, I appreciated him.Just the thought of coming face-to-face with Theo made my stomach turn upside down into some kind of twisted ball.Not only for what he had done but because a small part of me didn’t want