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Since sensationalized neays sold best, reporters and journalists had gleefully expounded on the grisly details of the cult's activities and, later on, its downfall There was a lot of debate about exactly how many deaths the cult was directly responsible for, and when it was revealed to the world that the cult's leader had been a wootten even more heated Some believed her crimes were more atrocious because she was a wo raped herself had broken her beyond repair

The only thing everyone agreed on was how the cult, which had areat power over the years with the help of its wealthiest members, would never have been exposed, much less destroyed, if law enforce to ith them from the inside

And that someone, much to everyone's shock, had been none other than the cult leader's "prophesied" heir A et himself arrested in order to have a chance to speak with the police about the cult Two years later, he had killed his own mother, and with it the walls of Hell had finally fallen

A lot of lives had been saved that day, at the expense of a boy's soul, and to this day, his identity had never been disclosed

MY KIDNAPPER'S EYES gleam with approval when I present myself as ordered, and with even a minute to spare I've tied my hair up with a floral handkerchief, and I've matched my sunflower dress with a pair of jute leather sandals I know it's ridiculous, but it feels like I' up for a first date

"You have good taste, my dove"

I wrinkle my nose at him, mostly just to hidethat to you, I think" All of the cabinets and drawers in the en-suite are packed with new stuff, and what I've seen so far is exceedingly prettyas well as pretty expensive, if the brand labels are anything to go by

"M else about the subject, and I'h of him not to push

We have brunch at the outdoor dining area, withyes every time he asks me to try this and that A part of me is still not over the fact that he's that boy, and it hasto him every so often

While I still can't reh to place his age in the , but he doesn't feel or look like it at all, and when I think about why that is

A memory unveils itself out of nowhere, and what it reveals breakselse about my kidnapper, and it h that I do findback tears eventually—-