“Sure!”

After dropping Sonia off at home, Ariana checked the time. The afternoon interview was still a few hours away. Deciding to take

Melon back home briefly to tidy up, Ariana began her tasks.

Once back home, Ariana helped Melon get cleaned up and changed, and then headed to the bathroom for her own shower.

She slowly peeled off her wrinkled clothing, catching her reflection in the mirror and pausing. Angry red marks littered her body, some darkening into bruises that would take time to fade.

elusive. She strained to remember

sanity. How could that man be Theodore? She couldn’t recall the stranger’s identity,

over her along with disbelief that she

face during

it, the more agitated she became. She stepped into the shower. The hot water calmed

her was relieved that the man had left before she

him allowed her to hold onto her fantasies a

to convince herself it was just a dream, a way to ease her guilty

awoken first. He must have

face and

the stranger’s path would never cross hers again. Praying that if he recognized her,

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