Love Unspoken

Chapter 1286

"Dad, Mom, I totally should've listened to you guys," Maria muttered, feeling like the world was crashing down on her.

She gazed up at the sky, like she could see her parents up there, her eyes all blurry with tears.

"After I graduated college, I was all about volunteering with some classmates," she stated.

Back then, she was young and reckless, clueless about the dangers out there. She wanted to do something big, something meaningful. So, despite her family's warnings, she took off with her friends to volunteer in some remote area. But the dude who took them there led them to a different mountain area, sneaking through walls and tunnels. She had no idea it was illegal immigration; she thought it was just a shortcut. Little did she know, that tunnel dumped them in another country.

From that point on, she never made it back home.

She got kinda lucky, though. Her two other female classmates? They got beheaded after just three months for trying to escape.

Maria saw them get tortured by a bunch of guys and then beheaded.

They got hacked up so many times, and the blood splatter haunted Maria for years.

Another classmate had it bad too. She didn't try to escape but caught some STD and got dumped in the wilderness. Maria was too scared to look for her.

to please some powerful guy. He'd beat her sometimes when he was in a bad mood, but compared

his control until he got bored and handed

thought she was done for, but their infighting gave

here,

and horror. Especially Abigail, who'd been kidnapped by Landon for so long. She'd been shackled but hadn't faced the horrors Maria described. For a moment, Abigail didn't know whether

her hand, feeling a wave of

only wanted to kill Alexander; otherwise, things could've been way

fear was that Abigail might be going through something like Maria

that didn't

"Abigail, you didn't go through

shook her head,

any more time. Pack up and let's get outta here," Oliver said. Even as a man, he didn't want to stick around any longer. Maria's

up and went

empty wicker chair in the room. For a second, she thought she saw Alexander sitting

walked over, but when she got closer, the

of it, touched the wicker chair,