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LILIANA

After he leaves, I collapse in a heap on the bed as choking sobs tear out from me with a blinding force. I want to wake up from this nightmare but everytime the cuff tugs at my ankle, it pulls me back to the reality that has now become my life.

“Kyle, what did you do?” I wail to the silence, my heart wringing in the despair that has begun to fester into a deep wound