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.

been short–but the truth

frozen in stunned

“Mathilda… This morning you said you’d never met Jenn or Sharon… Why did you lie? Why did you betray

“Why?!”

viral story of Charles dying for Sharon

that kind of love moved him–left him with a sense of grief and

the clips online: Charles holding Sharon’s ashes under the parasol tree, slowly growing

had hurt

but wonder–what if, back then, they’d searched the village more thoroughly after finding Mathilda?

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happened.

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and Charles’s deaths were caused–however indirectly—by the- very sister

he’d never really known

and Mergan looked no

Mathilda betray Jenn and Sharon? Why, once she was safe, hadn’t she

her, waiting

I only gave Jenn and Sharon up because I

sobbed, gasping for breath

betrayed anyone.

grew louder, more desperate–like she was the victim, more pitiful than Sharon

to… If I didn’t tell them about the escape plan, those

was scared. I’m not a