Second Chance, First Strike

first sensation as I woke up, followed by

ed. This room.

B, the very place everything in my

emembered my death: exploited and fatall

y phone confirmed the ter

family reunion, on the infam

t excuse of "I was only trying to help!

t, costing me a major pro

ading to a false illness diagnosis

en me to financial ruin and ul

ns" had paved my road to hell, culminat

erosion of my autonomy and future, was a

this time, things would

mising a future where her "help