CHAPTER 36

Audrey’s POV

It was an evening.

‘Why was it still evening?’

I asked myself, confused. I knew very well that I had passed out after sexual intercourse with a man like him. I recalled being so tied that my eyelids felt like they weighed a Tesla cyber truck each.

I turned around from the fountain to see who the footsteps echoing behind me belonged to. Then everywhere changed. I was in the courtyard of my childhood home. The gray bathing robe I had on had changed into the sac clothes I had growing up, up until I had left that place.

“No…” I said to myself, that the denial was strong. I couldn’t possibly be back here again after I thought I had finally escaped their wrath to a strange heaven they had sold me off. The footsteps wouldn’t stop echoing yet the face wouldn’t reveal itself as the fog hung down from the top of the tree down the soil like a soft cloudy sheet floating in the air.

Soon, an image of Maria manifested herself before me. My throat immediately closed up. I couldn’t s