At my boyfriend’s house, I finally found my aunt, who had been missing for over a decade after being abducted.
She was no longer the gentle, soft-spoken goddess from the dance department I remembered.
As for the family that had tormented her: the father, dressed in a sharp suit, expected me to call him ‘Uncle’; my boyfriend was in the middle of a soulful marriage proposal; and the youngest sister, wearing a bright, radiant smile, referred to her as ‘the family-less madwoman.’
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I swear, I didn’t mean to break into that room.
It was just that the sound of something slamming against the door was so violent, it made me feel as if a wild beast were trapped inside.