Her Heart

Again and again, these unmentionable taboos were broken by Madam Stewart: they were filled with the unknown darkness and the pain that tore her flesh and blood, reappearing in Lucille's heart. Back when the Jules family had met with disaster, the seven-year-old Lucille received one after another bad news along with the relentless hunt from those people! Lucille's mother, Annabelle, had fled with her. The mother and daughter hid abroad under false names in a chaotic place that had only known danger. Inhabitants often found themselves in life-and-death situations, as befitting its name of Life and Death Street. On this street, there was no shortage of fights that broke out every day for various reasons. For those people who were forced into a dead-end—driven by livelihood, disease, or being persecuted—their lives were a trifle. Death came for them unnoticed in some obscure corner. In such a place where rules did not apply, how difficult it must have been for Annabelle, a weak woman, to s