Melomiri

I’m Going Myself

Language: en

The news hit like a physical blow: my little brother, barely a freshman in college, had been sold to a cartel-run scam compound by his girlfriend for ten thousand dollars. The shock sent my parents into a dead faint. By the time I rushed home from my surgical residency, my mother was staring at her phone, a horrific video playing on the screen. It was my brother, Leo. Only nineteen, and he was beaten black and blue, his body a canvas of bruises. He was already deaf. His girlfriend, Rina, clutched at my sleeve, her face streaked with tears as she pleaded with me. “Ava, what are we going to…

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