clenched

sh forward and smash that

abortion medicine, and the hair scattered across the floor, she loosene

e wooden rods dug into her spine and arms

her for two seconds as if looking at

again, next time it won't be as simple

ce ahead. Her pupils were unfocused, as

ymore. Let me go. Yo

rds left her mout

ought she would never let go

id it herself-she n

she found it all

g Daniel back from death, turni

t even know when she h

e shook off her han

uld be hers, but the marriage

en ea

smiling at Emily through a restaurant w

hummed inside her chest,

e heard the funniest joke in

s wife. Who needs you

back, her eyes f

He keeps you because you're obedient enough, tolerant enough, so tolerant yo

and forth across Isabella

Daniel returned to the Lawson family

verything was a dream, afraid she would open her ey

, "Isabella, don't be afraid. I'm

thought he was still the same

w she

d cha

ly, he had never

t the Daniel she wan

ch coldly as someone s

abortion medicine for her in a voice as

end, he had only

performance for truth and even dreamin

, "Put a bowl on her head. Let her practice some grace. Otherwise, at tomor

ght a bowl of water and pl

weight of the brace, her whole body's

lip and walked forwar

d run into her mouth or whether she

not tell

t tell anyth

d Daniel, hated Emily, but

her dignity for a man, for becoming

ide, her face darken

acher to humiliate Isabella, to mak

eadily she looked as if she had been bo

Isabella passed her, she l

he porcelain bowl flew out

arning on the shards, and

pain, she heard Emily choke out,

hed, Daniel's voice so

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