Murder
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Lúcia thought she had suffered enough; after everything she had been through, nothing could shake her anymore.
Truth be told, she had been broken many times: by her father, her mother, her brother, and even herself. She felt she had lost each of them, metaphorically, of course, and almost literally.
All the events she had endured had shattered her countless times, but she convinced herself that everything would be resolved in the end. Even when she had been kidnapped, she somehow hoped that everything would work out.
Lúcia saw her brother holding a dagger and driving it into his chest. Her only brother had just committed suicide right in front of her, and the worst part was that he had done it to save her.
Lúcia slipped from the killer's grasp and fell to her knees. She saw her brother lying there, apparently dead, blood running from his chest and staining the floor red.
