{"id":272,"date":"2025-09-13T00:28:55","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T00:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/factznews.com\/?p=272"},"modified":"2025-09-13T00:28:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T00:28:55","slug":"272","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/factznews.com\/?p=272","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I felt sick. My husband had sold us out. For what? Money, power, protection? The reasons didn\u2019t matter. What mattered was survival, and he had chosen his side.<\/p>\n<p>I had to act quickly. Jared would realize soon enough that his plan had failed. I closed the laptop, my resolve hardening. I needed to protect Eli at all costs. There was no time to dwell on heartbreak or betrayal.<\/p>\n<p>Gathering a few essentials, I slipped out of the house and back to Mrs. Leverne\u2019s. She was a godsend, offering comfort and shelter without questions. I knew it was temporary. We needed to disappear, to become ghosts in the wind.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/factznews.com\/?p=270\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-32\" src=\"https:\/\/factznews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/read-more-300x75-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"75\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I felt sick. My husband had sold us out. For what? Money, power, protection? The reasons didn\u2019t matter. What mattered was survival, and he had chosen his side. I had to act quickly. Jared would realize soon enough that his plan had failed. I closed the laptop, my resolve hardening. I needed to protect Eli&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/factznews.com\/?p=272\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/factznews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/factznews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/factznews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factznews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factznews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/factznews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":285,"href":"https:\/\/factznews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions\/285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/factznews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factznews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factznews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}