Chp 28 - Stuck With A Psychopath

Limping badly and scarred-faced, Maria went through the door of the storehouse that one of the men standing outside it held open for her.

“Thank you,” she said before she passed through.

Valencia thought that her dehydration was finally making her lose it when she heard the voice. Maria couldn’t possibly be there. She looked up and was amazed when she saw that it was really Maria.

“Maria?” She licked her parched lips and raised her head higher. “Maria, is that you?”

Maria gingerly placed the tray in her hands on the table and quickly went over to pull back the curtains from the shrouded, barred window, then she limped back to Valencia’s side. “It is me, miss. It is me” she said with tears in her eyes.

Valencia’s eyes widened and her excitement dimmed when she saw the huge, ugly scar that covered most of her right cheek “Your…face. What happened to your face, Maria?” she asked instantly, hoping that it was not what she thought. Yet she knew.

Maria turned her face away from Valenci