One Act of Kindness, One Blacklist

One Act of Kindness, One Blacklist

Gavin

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Fresh out of grad school with a hefty education degree and crushing student loans. I tweaked my resume, dropping the master's, just to get a job as a domestic. My first gig was for the ultra-rich Davis family. I quickly discovered their nine-year-old daughter, Chloe, wasn't a "terror" but a traumatized child, neglected and abused. Her parents, especially her mother, ignored her cries for help, then punished her for every slight. I couldn't stand by. I protected Chloe, showed her kindness, and slowly, a bond formed. But the moment their cruel matriarch caught wind of it, she used my falsified resume as an excuse to destroy me. I was fired, blacklisted from every wealthy family in the city, and left penniless, deemed a liar and a troublemaker. How could showing a suffering child an ounce of compassion lead to me losing everything? I was stranded, my career shattered, all for daring to care where others wouldn't. The injustice burned, leaving me with nothing but despair. Just when I thought this was the end, Chloe, the very girl I was accused of "manipulating," ran away from her gilded cage and found me. Clinging to me as her last hope, she whispered, "I have a plan."

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Fresh out of grad school with a hefty education degree and crushing student loans.

I tweaked my resume, dropping the master's, just to get a job as a domestic.

My first gig was for the ultra-rich Davis family.

I quickly discovered their nine-year-old daughter, Chloe, wasn't a "terror" but a traumatized child, neglected and abused.

Her parents, especially her mother, ignored her cries for help, then punished her for every slight.

I couldn't stand by.

I protected Chloe, showed her kindness, and slowly, a bond formed.

But the moment their cruel matriarch caught wind of it, she used my falsified resume as an excuse to destroy me.

I was fired, blacklisted from every wealthy family in the city, and left penniless, deemed a liar and a troublemaker.

How could showing a suffering child an ounce of compassion lead to me losing everything?

I was stranded, my career shattered, all for daring to care where others wouldn't.

The injustice burned, leaving me with nothing but despair.

Just when I thought this was the end, Chloe, the very girl I was accused of "manipulating," ran away from her gilded cage and found me.

Clinging to me as her last hope, she whispered, "I have a plan."

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