Unwanted Wife, Unbreakable Spirit

sign. For five years, I' d been a ghost in my ow

ed in, saw me, and murmured a n

ivia." His brief warmth vanished, replaced by chilling disgust. "Ava," he spat, "It's always you." He shoved me

ge. "You want to torment me? Then do it. Fulfill your promise." An hour l

a deal: I'd find Olivia, and he'd gr

ill obsessed, Mom. He's been looking for me for five years." Olivia, who had supposedly been mute since childhood, was

locked up. I'm scared." He believed her. He dragged me to the bar, where Olivia, now feigning a wheelch

up a steel pipe. He broke my legs, then tossed the pipe aside, saying, "Crawl back to the

nt. With his child. The irony shattered me. I wanted an abortion, but my injur