Stella Sterling tucked her hands into her overcoat, her eyes twinkling with amusement. "No need to thank me. Words are pointless. I'm waiting to see what you'll do from now on."
Yana Larkin looked up and smiled confidently. "We won't disappoint you!"
It wasn't just about repaying her kindness—for their own sakes, the siblings knew they had to change, to grow stronger.
'The suddenness of today's events left me deeply shaken,' she thought. 'But thanks to our benefactor, my brother and I survived.'
But who could guarantee something like this wouldn't happen again?
'Inside the complex, the neighbors I knew have changed, becoming horrifying strangers. If they were capable of breaking in to murder and rob today, who knows what they'll do tomorrow? No one can say for sure.'
