Beyond the Divorce

“Tvanna...

Ivanna..." As I got to the top of the iron tank, I heard Jared's uneasy voice from the bottom.

I felt dizzy, and my steps faltered.

When I slipped, Atlas caught me and lifted me back up.

I couldn't afford to overthink.

Anxiously, I followed the stairs spiraling down from the top of the iron tank.

My trembling voice echoed, "Ivanna! What happened to her?" T could barely make out the situation below.

A few faint lights swayed at the bottom of the iron tank, and there appeared to be water.

The pungent smell of rust and stagnant water intensified as I descended, chilling me to the bone.

At the base, Jared's men used their phone's flashlights to illuminate the massive tank.

The lights resembled fireflies.

It was like a veil had covered my vision.

In the darkness, I could only see moving figures.

Theard Jared shout, "Knife!" My heart leaped to my throat.

I

though I was anxious,

slow, and my legs

but I finally

as my eyes adjusted

her body pale from

a knife to cut the ropes binding

her body was

"_.

kept calling her name, his voice filled

"Ivanna, wake up.

As he held the nearly lifeless Ivanna

in the dim light, unsettling us when combined with Jared's desperate

her to the hospital!" Atlas, who had just arrived,

voice echoed

snap out of

the filthy water,

love and concern for her were unquestionable at

had lost all of his

way for

still descending the stairs quickly turned around and

How is she?" All of us swiftly climbed back up

tank and descended the

Tension was in the air as two groups