Realizing I couldn’t avoid it any longer, I slowly opened the door.
Cassandra collapsed at my feet. Her body was smeared with blood.
The moment she saw me, she dragged herself forward and clung to my leg with a death grip.
"Auntie, I finally found you! Please, save Cassie!" she sobbed.
"Those people, they never wanted to adopt me! They just wanted a child bride for their mentally disabled son! When I refused, they beat me, yelled at me and starved me! If I hadn't run fast, they would have dragged me to the bed of a retard right now!”
She cried like her heart was being torn apart.
The surrounding neighbors also sympathized.
"In a law-abiding country like this, how are monsters like that allowed to exist? Do these deserve to be called a human too?”
"Aaron, you and your wife have always been kind. You volunteer at the orphanage every week. Why not take her in and adopt her? You’re a senior executive at your company, so you can afford to feed one more mouth."
“Yeah, and you’ve only got one kid. Raising two isn’t much harder than raising one. Maybe it's destiny that she is here. Let her stay. Poor thing."