Ruined By Mafia
Measuring my worth not as a person but as an asset, a point of leverage, a means to an end.
I met his gaze steadily, refusing to look away, refusing to show the discomfort crawling along my spine. This exchange was about more than just me, but I was clearly central to it in ways I didn't yet understand. Whatever history existed between these two men, whatever conflict was playing out, I had become a focal point, a battlefield, a prize to be won or lost.
"I've always believed," I said, breaking my silence, my voice steady despite the tension coiling in my chest, "that education is most valuable when it's freely chosen. Not when it's forced upon you."
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