The Contracted Marriage Five-Years Lie

arefully constructed lie, a five-year

ouple united, but inside, it was a cold cha

ear: at the contr

pending divorce as a threat to his stranglehold on her, esca

used me in gasoline within a desolate

her to publicly humiliate me and declare her sole d

this my penance for a contract unfulfilled, or for daring

lt like a perverse tribute to a p

urprising act of selfless defiance, born from

ing me on an unforeseen path toward profound heal