When Love Became Cruelty

I chased Marcus

, vanished, but I refuse

my savings, working endle

telescope, was pawned for a g

tering event

us.

ide my stepsis

s! Pathetic," Izzy scoffed,

zy but ice-cold for me,

Izzy's fake scar, claimi

rief? A calculated

then imprisoned me, slo

chestrate such monstrous cru

deliberate shattering of my father' s

in warranted

ned me in the scorching desert with rattlesnak

t be their