Author: 头顶有喵
Status: Completed
Category: Contemporary
Rating: PG13
Last Update: -
Synopsis:
My student, Alicia Duff, hailed from a background of gnawing struggle, and she timidly asked if she could find refuge in my home. Out of an impulse of kindness and perhaps a misguided notion of charity, I acquiesced. But a year later, she suddenly vanished from the academic scene, her presence receding like a shadow at dawn. Then, one fateful day, she reappeared at my doorstep, a baby cradled tenderly in her arms, and lodged a devastating accusation against my brother Cillian Hawke—that he had violated her. Police and reporters converged like vultures upon a carcass, and Cillian was subjected to a paternity test. To my utter shock and dismay, the results confirmed his fatherhood. We were decimated, our lives upended in a swirl of legal settlements and emotional damages. Cillian was sentenced to prison, a stark, cold reality that painted him as a criminal. I was expelled from school, and my reputation was shredded into irreparable tatters. Alicia, seizing the moment with the cunning of a predator, turned to social media, crafting herself into a tragic victim, her every word calculated to incite sympathy and attention. Her comment, "No girl would purposely get pregnant just to slander someone," stoked the flames of public outrage, thrusting my family into the cauldron of a media frenzy. I became the monster teacher, a predatory figure who had lured an innocent student into my home to satiate Cillian's dark desires. My parents, both retired police officers and stalwart figures of justice, could not endure the public humiliation. They chose a grim, final escape, their bodies found in the river, a silent testament to their despair. With nowhere to turn, I was relentlessly pursued by digital tormentors, and my spirit gradually eroded. In a moment of utter hopelessness, I leaped from an overpass, the world below me a blur of darkness. And then I awoke. To my astonishment, I had been granted a miraculous reprieve. I found myself back on the very day Alicia first came to stay with us.