When the Embers Turn to Ash
It felt like my parents, whom I had lived with for over twenty years, had never loved me, not even for a second.
When the video ended, someone in the audience immediately asked, “Wasn’t Jacob supposed to have gone abroad? How did he end up on Exile Island?”
“If he went there, could he come back in one piece?”
Ralph panicked. He rushed forward, trying to snatch the phone. “The videos are fake! Jacob fabricated all of it! He went there of his own free will! It’s because he had no self-respect!”
However, before he could even touch the phone, the Wright family's bodyguards slammed him to the ground. My parents tried to step forward, but one look from the Wrights froze them in place.
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