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Chapter 6 - Older
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2024-10-29 19:42:56Marina
Three years later.
I wish I dared to escape from this dreadful life. There is no purpose, no life left in my eyes as I wash the dishes from our dinner in the sink.
Smile and never open my mouth, that’s my life in a nutshell. Routine is the law, and so are the chores my husband gave.
Husband.
I accidentally drop the plate I’m holding in my hands and cut myself on the pieces. Blood color the water red, and I inhale at the pain dicing through my chest. The physical pain is not as bad as the mental one burdening me every day.
“You can do this,” I whisper to myself. “Keep on fighting,”
The life I’m living is not the life I wanted, and every morning it gets a little harder to open my eyes and meet the streetlights outside our house.
These days I no longer live with my parents but in a luxury house. I live together with Rain, the rich man my mother forced me to marry the day John left m
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