“I am asking you to marry me out of a genuine desire to help you out,” said Seth, hoping I would consider his very considerate proposal.
Conscious of how my best friend was fond of sacrificing his own joys for other people, I couldn’t selfishly accept his suggestion to make him suffer, “I’ve already ruined my life. I don’t want to do the same to you.”
“I don’t understand how marrying you would ruin my life,” argued Seth, unaware of the malignant ways of Noah. “Since you’re my best friend, I don’t see a single reason why it could go wrong.”
Finally, sitting down, I began explaining, “Noah plans on destroying not just me, but anybody who would want to help me. If he were to find out I was marrying someone else, he’d dash towards my parents and tell them everything that had transpired be
