The moment the car slowed to a stop, Maya’s pulse began to race. Her palms grew clammy against her dress as her fingers twisted together in her lap.
It hit her all at once—how much her life had changed in less than three months.
Not long ago, she’d been just another working student—pouring coffee by day, cramming for exams by night, counting coins each week just to get by. Then came the internship that was supposed to change everything—until it almost destroyed her.
She could still feel the echo of that fear sometimes—the suffocating moment when she was trapped, powerless, certain she wouldn’t make it out. But somehow, through chaos, pain, and a twist of fate, she ended up here.
A week ago, she was a normal employee tagging along for an ocular visit and PR shoot.
Today, she was return
