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Alex committed suicide. Before dying, he
stabbed Sarah, still asleep, like a final act of
revenge, echoing Sarah’s act of carving “slut”
into my arm. Karma.
Sarah was hospitalized. Derek, blaming her
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scalpel. Sarah was seriously injured. Derek
was sentenced to life in prison for attempted murder. He died a few years later. They
legally divorced. He left all his assets to me.
Derek’s mother contacted me, full of regret. “Lily, if Derek had cherished you… none of this would’ve happened. Seven years ago, maybe I shouldn’t have let you go…”
“Aunt, there are no ifs. Every decision I made,
I don’t regret. I don’t have to sacrifice my life
for others.”
I donated Derek’s inheritance to a charity for
rural girls‘ education. I finally escaped my fate
intertwined with his. Two lives, never to
intersect.
