The Broken-hearted She And The Icy He

Chapter 409 Shattered Illusions

Bodger, Taylor, and Mergan’s faces drained of all color.

They’d seen some of the online buzz. News clips. Videos.

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Jenn had gone live more than once, angrily accusing Mathilda of betrayal–of selfishly and maliciously turning her and Sharon in.

They knew Mathilda had also been trafficked to that same village. They had asked her about it back then.

Through tears, she’d claimed she had no idea why Jenn would smear her like that. Said she never betrayed

anyone.

They’d asked her, too–if she and Jenn and Sharon had all ended up in the same village, why hadn’t she told the police, when they came to rescue her over four years ago, that there were still other girls being held captive?

She said she’d had no freedom at all, was beaten daily, and had no idea there were others. She cried. She apologized. She said if only she had known Jenn and Sharon were there, she would’ve helped.

And they believed her.

They already felt guilty about what she’d endured. Seeing her cry like that, they couldn’t bring themselves to doubt her.

To them, their baby sister was pure–good–hearted. If she ever did something wrong, like setting Lily up, it was because Lily had bullied her terribly in the past, She’d only been retaliating.

They never imagined that the sister they cherished, the one they thought was innocent and kind, would lie… would betray others… would stand by and watch two girls suffer, even when she had the power to help.

had been short–but the truth couldn’t

Taylor, and Mergan were frozen in stunned silence, their

never met Jenn or Sharon… Why did you lie? Why did you betray them? Why, when you knew there

“Why?!”

had seen the viral story of Charles dying for

kind of love moved him–left him

Charles holding Sharon’s ashes under the parasol

hurt to

back then, they’d searched the village more thoroughly after finding Mathilda?

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happened.

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couldn’t bear the thought that Sharon and Charles’s deaths were caused–however indirectly—by the- very sister he’d always thought was

he’d never really known her at

and Mergan

heads around it. Why would Mathilda betray Jenn and Sharon?

stared at her, waiting for an

gave Jenn and Sharon

sobbed, gasping for

want to admit it. She never wanted to admit she’d betrayed anyone. But James’s video had

desperate–like she was the victim, more pitiful than Sharon who died, more

about the escape plan, those monsters would’ve killed me. I just wanted

scared. I’m not a bad