Along with the letter, there was a brown paper envelope.The warden wrote that it contained Sandra's personal effects and that she had specifically asked for it to be given to me.I hesitated for a long time before finally opening it.Inside were more than a dozen pages, packed tight with handwriting. The letters were messy and twisted, heavy with despair and struggle.Sandra wrote that she knew her crimes were unforgivable, and she wasn't asking for my pardon.She only wanted to tell me the truth.She said the reason she slid step by step into the abyss was not, in the beginning, because she loved Eric.It was because Eric held something over her. Something lethal enough to destroy her entire family.Years ago, her father, a high-ranking official, had committed a serious act of negligence.The only proof, a critical audio recording, somehow ended up in the hands of Eric's father.From that moment on, the Hoyles family became a hidden, venomous snake, using that leverage to c
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