Revenge Is Mine
My mind, still reeling from the revelation of my disfigured face, struggled to process his next statement.
"The fire wasn't an accident, Ms. Moretti."
"What... what are you saying?"I managed to ask.
"Marco and Alesia," he continued, "They orchestrated it. They wanted to eradicate you, to make you disappear for good."
A chasm opened beneath me, swallowing me whole. Marco and Alesia! They had tried to kill me. Not just abandon me, not just betray me, but erase me. The sheer, unfathomable depravity of it left me speechless and breathless. My nails dug into the armrests of the wheelchair, a futile attempt to ground myself in a world that had just been turned inside out.
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