Shattered Love, A Monster's Reign

Pace

ough every inch of my body. My back felt like a thousand tiny knives were

d resolve. A clarity born from the depths of d

punishment." Sunlight, thin and watery, filtered through a crack in the wall. Hours had pass

teeth. The ropes were loose, frayed from my earlier struggles. With trembling fingers, I worked at the knots,

st. Dizziness swam over me. I stumbled, nearly falling, but cau

laced by twilight. The journey was a blur of pain and sheer will. By some miracle, I reached a small, forgotten road. A rickety old pickup truck, spewin

my pocket. My phone, somehow still clutch

ied. I know we had a fight, bu

Missed me? After what he had done? The hypocrisy was astounding. He thought he could break me, then

ushing me down the stairs, after poisoning me, after having me brutally beaten. He

a formal notification that the divorce cooling-off period had ende

strange, almost intoxicating sensation, like sheddi

se days of numb clarity. I attached the files. The incontrovertible evidence of Blair's schemes. The fake miscarriage reports, the manipulate

hilling letter. Not an apolo

ist

final. You will no longer have any claim over m

e Blair over our stillborn son. You chose a manipulative lie

And then, you had me abducted and beaten, believing I was some nameless staff member who had wr

your promises. I believed your love could overcome

thing you will find here is the truth about the woman you

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r, his emails, every single avenue of communication. I deleted his pre

surprisingly comfortable against my bruised body. I looked

logies? Worthless. He had inflicted wounds that no amount of time, no amount of regret, could ever heal.

no longer the woman who would allow herself to be broken. I w

session. I didn't know where I was going, but I knew, with a certainty that settled deep in my bones