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.

please some powerful guy. He'd beat her sometimes when he was in a

barely survived under his control until he got bored

their infighting gave her a shot. She escaped with

she ended up here, had Casey, and never

by Landon for so long. She'd been

her hand, feeling a wave of

Alexander; otherwise, things could've been way

they were out of touch with Abigail, Quinn's biggest fear was that Abigail

God that

again, "Abigail, you didn't go through any of that,

her head, looking

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

Maria up and went inside

in the room. For a second, she thought

when she got closer, the chair was

touched the wicker chair,