Betrayed Ballerina: A Love Lost

t, living in my leg, a constant re

dream, teaching kids the future I' d lost, ma

r. It was a frantic stage manager reporting an accident, a fallen lighting ri

o was more a father than my own, lay broken. A cold dr

her and my sweet, charming adopted sister, the new prodigy-t

ison lay critically injured. Not dread, but a sickening memory rose-

good of the company. I remembered Ethan, my brilliant ex-fiancé, saying my damage

on. I died a slow death, my spirit broken, then heard of his lonely

memory; it was a warning. The same people, th

looked at my useless leg, at the crutches-symbols o

reer, my future. They would no

darkness behind Lily' s smile, David' s ruthless ambition, Ethan' s moral rot. Crippled, isol