Love's Obsession, Her Freedom

o the little gold-embossed placard ne

hy," paraded at the Vance Gallery, a

ng in like a vulture when my father' s bu

sick, a rare autoimmune disease

iancé; he was the only lifeline, holding L

e into a contract: his "protégé

soul enslaved, all to save

t, to own the one thing tha

ing me to play servant at his lav

g her the diamond necklace I had

im, her innocence twisted into a weapon

own life to the ground and make sure he wa