Trapped by Lies

y together for four years wit

been so good to me. But it never crossed my mind that my parents would ask us to break up ri

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single mother, who worked as a cleaner to support him. I never mentioned it, so I don't kn

didn't give me time to dwell on it. She contin

e still in school, he managed to save quite a bit. I

o him always being around me, so I would often get upset with him, not

back then, tried to stand up for him with my

he wanted was for me to be on his

der, I coul

"Do you still

then shook

o see me. I called him once and even went to his h

iend?"

now. A year after we broke

just stared at me. "But rece

but she never told me

lt. But he looked at me with icy eyes, asking why I couldn

w m

at for you? Isn't everything

about it, those word

family being belittled and then having the

en him so eerily calm in anger. He sai

e someone

unwell, took th

ng her last wo

I'm not as impulsive as I used to be. So when he came to

aight at me. "Skyla

t answe

lowly forming

home. Instead, I went st

isn't David with you

e and said he w

eeded something that I

d the ring was still quie

oo surprised to no

saw the letter engrav

my world seem

y left Dav

peatedly, but I

ment, clutching the ring, dr

g made se

een sympathizing with Janes

all so

nd me, I was a

hat are yo

d the bottle from my ha

made me feel sic

s, David's face da

hing, just sile

hed him and asked, "Did

d for a moment, th

he was pla

replied,

instantly. After a lon

ght so. She never

washed his hands

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