Chapter 6

Finally, someone I trusted. Someone who would actually help me, showed up.

It was my father's elder sister, Aunty Lita. She was the only person in the entire world who had believed me three years ago when I swore I didn't kill my mom. She had always fought for me, defended me, and loved me.

I knew in my heart that I would have been living a peaceful, happy life if my dad had simply released me to her custody when she begged him to let her take me back then. But his anger had been too blind, too consuming.…