the man who promised to always be th
devoted attention, his constant presence,
his eyes turned to ice. "These feelings are inappropr
who openly mocked me. Then came the 'accident' – a knife wound, a trap set by his
ocks, leaving me
or something far darker? The answer arrived with Olivia' s text: a faded photo of my mother and a
rojection of a sick, unrequi
a surr
ered the means to cut the ties, expose his manipulations,