inary evening. I had been out with some of my friends, walking back home late in the night. The streets were quiet,

blood everywhere. My parents lay on the floor, their bodies broken an

eak. I froze, my heart pounding in my chest. My min

..." my voi

de. "Go," my mother urged, her voice weak, but

o young to understand what was happening. But I couldn't leave withou

barely a whisper. As I held my han

had a scar on his face......he came for the blue diamond...... our family's secret a

him as I reached our house that night. He had been leaving, his dark figure disappeari

parents before. But I never knew it was something so im

ng weaker by the second. "You have to go, Audrey," sh

m, to fight back. But there was nothing I could do. My fat

and her hands fell limp in mine. "I'll make them pay

ter and ran. We didn't stop until

ng from me for a year. I had been searching for him, piecing together whatever I could about the m

hing that would cost 40 million. Where was I supposed to get that kind of money? I had sold everything, taken all jobs, a

riend Sofia came over, offering me a solution - t

aid quietly. Sitting beside me.

an?." I asked,

h, powerful men. Billionaires, mafia, men who don't care about anything except getting what they wa

h. "You mean I'd have to sleep with them?." I cou

ons for one night. I know it's not what you want to do, b

never even been with a man. I was still a virgin. How could I

ng my head. "I can't do it....

but think about your sister. You've done everything you coul

hought about it. The memory of the

there? I had been searching for him for a year, and this could be the w

ed that surgery. But on the other hand, I felt sick as a sort of cell in my body, of giving away something I had kept pure for so long. The streets outside were dark, the