Daunting Reality
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  • Parts 3
  • Time 21m
Ongoing, First published Apr 18, 2012
You sometimes hate your life and wish you were someone else? Don't, because you have no right. There are people like Melanie Houston out in the world, with no family, no job, no friends, holding onto dear life only for the sake of it. You think she's crazy? Maybe.

When she was fifteen, she came home from school one day and found her mother raped and murdered in the living room, and it was only the beginning. 
She had lost her older brother in an accident because he was too drugged and drunk to drive. His car flew off of a bridge, plunging right into the lake.He drowned not because he couldn't swim up to the surface, but because he couldn't undo the seat belt.
After that, her father took off because he was buried in debts, leaving her to take care of her younger brother.
She struggled to fulfill each one of her brother's wishes, she sacrificed her body and soul to make him happy. He was the only thing in the world that kept her heart beating, that kept her sane and healthy. She was even hired temporarily as a stripper because she needed money in order to put food on the table. She did everything, but still... when she arrived home, his things were missing.  That's when everything started to shatter.
The doctors diagnosed her with leukaemia.
She sunk into depression.
Even so, she hardly considered herself defeated, she kept going. 

See? There are people fighting to stay alive even though they have no reason to do so.

Her last chance to get a life is to sell her body for 1 million dollars to an apparently human business man.She has nothing to lose.But what happens when she finds out that this man has something to do with her past, with her family and with her? What happens when she tries to run? It all turns into a Hunt. She becomes the Hunted.

"In the distance, I heard my mate's voice as he spoke to the others: I'll draw the line. Tonight, the one who'll bring her back here and kill her in front of me will be rewarded! And then, they sprung after me. All of them."
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