t the room turning around me, the
elf to concentrate on the face of the officer and de
kind of misu
d, my voice barely whisper. "
eyes cold and serious. There
man exploitation. You have the right to be silent. Everything
ct, my wrist was pulled behind my back, the c
d when I was led
***
I stood in the courtr
silence. "Will wit
ghtmare, they were there. Bruce, my h
together when a hot te
eamed? I couldn't un
the stage. She climbed up, her v
er to stop engaging in drug trafficking, but never listened. She was still pushing me to get involved, and when I refused, she started pushin
ouldn't breathe. That wa
word twisted into my
at the sadness that didn't belong to his face. His vo
o warn her to help her, but she was too far away. I never imagined that it would be involved in something like that. Drugs .
ear slid do
cried. Crocodile tears. I
ich offered their own piece of this terrible
on the other until thei
again, his voice
nt, Sophie Hendricks, has been sentenc
s, such as the death sentence
when everythin
the courtroom, the head spins, the world a
***
ing and my head pounded as m
f the hospital room, followed by a look at
nd relief of her voice said. "You fainte
es flooded back, but my body felt ha
pened?" I whispered
in court." You were under great stres
understand everything. "Test
nod
." And ... Well, we have som
egn
e Earth had fall
y heart lay in my ches
comfortable, but nod
d again and the
wore my child ... a man w
***
years
nd Ward's voice came down the
lled out of her language, as if it
since I was Sophie Hendricks,
nt. Lighter. Brighter. It was as if the weight of my past
the chains of my earlier life were finally re
her behavior, was a woman who organized my rise. It was the one that ensured that I would never survive
ut her eyes retained th
ack," she said, and her v
lled my lungs after five years of darkness. Everythi
pped. I wasn't just another face in the crowd. I
pull it out?" She
y lips curled into a confid