"Oh, no, don't worry. You're safe here for now.” she reassured me with a kind smile. “I'm a customer at the library and I know you're a good woman, Mina. I figured a woman like you must have a reason why she doesn't want to be found."

I stared at the woman, who appeared to be in her sixties. My eyes went to the window where I saw the policemen entering my house.

"I don't want to go back," I said fearfully. "I can't go back."

The woman walked to a chair and sat down, ...