SERENA'S POV The night silence enveloped me like a blanket and the evening air was cool. But I was aloneI wanted to fall asleep but hunger scratched my stomach and sometimes I felt so scared like someone was watching me, like those guards would come back.I sighed and buried my face in my palms as I burst into tears and my heart squeezed.I remembered Eliot, the rejection, the betrayal, the way he had treated me like trash and my hand went to my stomach .My little child, the only thing I had left.The door opened and a young woman, possibly a man, walked in holding a tray.Her demeanor was more kind than hostile. She didn't know how to approach me. “Thank you.” I said in a hoarse voice. She gave me a nod It seemed like she understood that despite my best efforts to blend in, I was not really one of them but she said nothing. She started to walk away but I interrupted her .“ Wait.” I said ,my voice soft in my throat. “Do you know the man who brought me here last night?”For
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