CHAPTER 160

KIRA

After everything, my mother and I ended up on the streets with nowhere to go. It was a feeling of helplessness that I can’t quite put into words. But then, just when things seemed bleakest, the man we met the other day unexpectedly pulled up beside us.

He offered us a place to stay.

It was a small apartment, nothing luxurious, but it had four walls and a roof—and that was enough. I didn’t car