Iris:
"What video?" I asked, my lips trembling as my gaze shifted to my mother.
Her lips were pressed tightly together, forming a thin line, showing that I had truly angered her.
With Luca gone, she had no option left but to prove that she would not only threaten us, but ruin us if we did not obey.
"They are going to ruin me," she said. "I cannot live with that."
I immediately shook my head.
"She is not going to leak your videos. Trust me. I will do anything to stop her," I told her.
But Scarlett was badly shaken. Her eyes were swollen. She kept rubbing her face with her hands, then gripping her neck.
"I have younger siblings, Iris. I have to live in this community. When they see these pictures, they will not ask questions. They will make me suffer, and my siblings too. I should have just ended my life," she said, her voice breaking.
She paused and lifted another phone to show me what she meant. It was a picture of her, completely nude, posed suggestively.
