that separated me from my home were the hardest to cross, knowing that t

my parent’s death, and I was hurting even more for the end of my love for Alexa. Th

eplaced with nature’s splendid view, I suddenly felt afraid. And I knew it was not only about

borders' huge trees were now expanding their canopies, casting dark shadows against the afternoon skies. On the outskirts o

my grandfather dug deeper beneath the permeable rocks until he could make a fence around the well. It then b

s curved into a bitter smile. This place was a wi

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the tr

surrounding hills. I glanced at the person whom Jaime Cortes and his men set as my target. He, too, was screaming like a mad man, not wil

was that Jaime placed the task in my hand as a punishment upon finding out on their wedding

his bullet will scatter your brain,” Jaime roar

u?” Alexa shouted back, her shrill a

long obsession, and even if she was hurting him again by asking for her death, he could never give her up. And I could understand his disappointment in knowing that she had alrea

f you don’t pull the trigger, I’ll

My knees were then clinking against each other as my grow

honorable death! Don’t mind me. I’

ther. My burning hatred for Jaime was then blazing into lethal flam

e growled again, but I cou

ld tone. The sight of my frail father made me willing to accept my fate if that would mean h

hile the other two enclosed their hands on mine, and soon the bullet fired into a tree stump beside my target.

mbed my brain. What I saw next shocked me to the core. It wa

I could no longer feel a single pulse. I shook him in my arms; my grieving voice came howling into the air. Seeing later that my father was no longe

father’s corpse was the man lying in the pool of blood. N

fore she could finish her sentence, she also fe

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med their death, the police came in to arrest me. I tested positive for paraffin, and the bullet that pierced into the heart of the stranger came from

enting me as my lawyer. Right after the jail guard pushed me into my assigned cell, I stopped hoping