Chapter 174. The World Knows

Leah’s POV

I was in the back of the police car, the sirens blaring into the evening as I was being taken to god-knows-where. My heart was beyond heavy and tears just kept escaping my eyes.

I was not sobbing or anything, I was just sitting there as the tears leaked from my eyes. I could not erase from my mind what I had seen before I had been told to get out of the room and had been arrested.

My mom. She looked so strong, so okay. And then after learning about what I had done, she just—she just got worse all of a sudden.

I don’t care what you tell me, I will always believe that that was my fault. What if she dies? Gosh, I won’t be able to live with myself if that happens. How would I live with the guilt? 

And it was all because of one stupid thing that I did. All because I had decided to have some compassion for Rafael, the man that I was now romantically involved with; the man whom I had lost my virginity to.

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