Most people are simply what they seem.
Did she really believe that? In his experience people were rarely as they seemed.
Take her, for example. Was she an innocent, or an opportunist who had taken advantage of his grandmother? Had she used her relationship with a vulnerable woman to extract information about him?
And what about the rest of her life?
He wondered what secrets she was hiding because if he knew one thing it was that everyone had secrets.
He sat down in front of his computer screen and the words started to flow.
He rarely based his characters on real people. Instead he preferred to use them as inspiration, taking traits and crafting his own fully formed individuals. But in his head, his main character was taking shape, and that shape was uncannily like Eva. He imagined how Eva might change if she met the wrong people, if life dealt her a different set of cards. Imagined the damage that life could do to someone like her.
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