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Pandora's Box

Author: John Stone
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Pandora’s Box

The files at the USB pressure had been worse than I imagined. My computer display screen glowed withinside the dim mild of my apartment, illuminating emails, monetary records, or even blurry, time-stamped snapshots that informed a tale of greed, manipulation, and destruction.

The maximum damning proof changed into a sequence of price logs displaying how Alex’s father had funneled cash to “silence” Ethan’s mom after the “ coincidence .” Another set of files designated the efforts to erase all lines of the Grayson own circle of relatives ' involvement within the close to - deadly incident.

And then there had been the snap shots —grainy snap shots of Ethan’s mom mendacity in a health center bed, bruised and broken.

I closed my computer and pressed my palms to my temples, seeking to regularise the whirlwind in my mind. Damien wasn’t mendacious . He had surpassed me in fact , and now it changed into mine to carry.

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