@Dark14knight Thank you for reading my book! I didn't expect someone to write something in this conversation wall of mine(been here for long but I almost never utilized this feature).
I really appreciate your analysis of my story. Even if I did end the book a melancholic tone, dear Teresa will live on in the hearts of who knew her and of her life story as both a happy and a tragic woman who lived to holds her heart in her sleeves underneath her 'perfect mask', and had died offering it for others happiness. Her end is a beginning and their beginning is her end, ever since she have learnt her dark tomorrow she decided to do her best to protect her people–especially those who truly cared and loved her. Therefore she choose the path of pain–pain that will pave way for a brighter future at the very least to her love ones whom she have left behind could enjoy.
She was a warrior–not a saint or a martyr ,who have fallen to see the people she fights for live for another day of peace. Long tired and wary, her death is both an escape and a final struggle. Only then she finally achieved the peace that her life seems to never have. That is dear Teresa a greedy and selfish woman who is only tried to live happily, but someone fate have denied to be one; thus, her dreams and hopes are entrusted to the people who lives on–her only child especially, that they wouldn't suffer as much as she did.