The Unspoken Farewell

at, his face inches from mine. "Ev

on me, but his fury

to ensure Maya faced the

y destroying every part of my life, a

nternship terminated. I saw her leaving, tears str

h a grotesque proposal, deliv

e responsibility... admit you gave her flawed research, perhaps even... inadvertently share

suicide, to confess to a fraud I didn't commit, to

if

low you to resign quietly from t

d, was much worse. For me.

" I asked, my

Emily. When it suits him.

drafted by Kent legal, a mast

nt in his eyes was a heavy weight. Academic probation. M

e me. I got a sterile email from

the archives. The few personal

ison. I spent days just staring at the ceiling,

came home to fi

othes slashed, my laptop smashed. A few cheap p

dom robbery. It

ing left. You

th. Doors slammed in my face. The Kent nam

real att

been suspended from her nursing job. An

seventeen-year-old brother, was arre

er seen them befo

is was William. Thi

with ruining me. They we

e the fi