Victor said nothing. And that silence broke Eli more than the insults.
A Friendship No One Wanted to See
Eli and Mila hadn’t always lived like this.
There was a time when she could run — laughing across the lawn — bringing him snacks, drawing pictures with him, stitching him a blanket when he had nothing to sleep under.
She had once given him a bracelet with his name engraved on it.
“My dad doesn’t know,” she’d whispered. “But today might be your birthday.”
To Eli, that single gift meant family.
But after Mila fell ill, everything changed.
Doctors arrived. Pills multiplied. And slowly, the girl who once ran stopped feeling her legs.
Eli noticed something no one else did.
Even before Mila lost the ability to walk, he had been finding identical medicine boxes discarded in the trash near his shack — weeks earlier than the official treatment.
Why would medication appear before an illness?
The question haunted him.
Thrown Away Like Garbage
One night, desperate to see her, Eli climbed the mansion walls to Mila’s window.
Inside, he found her sobbing in her wheelchair, Victor holding her while fighting his own tears.
When Helena caught Eli in the room, she screamed.