An Atonement of Love
ling, the man I'd loved since childh
am, blinded by grief, believed my own innocent
t with love, but wi
r-onto the marble floor, its clatter echoing the
ancer I hadn't revealed, believing it
, falsely imprisoned for embezzlement
rate pleas, denied him
tal news came: my f
elty es
the dutiful fiancée, only to publicly destroy a cherished gift
terminal diagnosis, he scoffed
abricated a monstrous lie: a misca
vengeance on me for killin
d he be
protect me become this cruel str
cancer dismissed as an elaborate trick, and
shock over my father's death an
rapped, unable to prove my innocence, ques
ained-a silent promise that the truth, h