The Five-Year Scam
Five years of humiliation and five years of being less than a person… Had I even been like a human to them?
“You two! Check that side!”
Voices echoed from the yard. They were closing in. I snapped back to myself and tore down the mountain path as fast as my legs would carry me.
Back in the city, I flagged down the first cab I could find and went straight home, to the place Melissa and I once called home.
My steps froze when I pushed open the study door, it was filled with monitors, all displaying live feeds of the estate. Every room, every path, and even the stable that I’d slept in for five years, were displaying right in the middle of the screen.