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8. The First Obedience

Author: Priyal Dessai
last update Last Updated: 2025-05-27 04:38:02

[CAMI]

I sit on the bed, the same bed I first woke up in when all this shit started, still wearing the wedding dress that’s no longer white.

There’s blood on it. Not mine. Some poor guy who tried to help me, or drag me, or who the fuck even knows. Whoever he was, his blood’s on my stomach now, dried and dark and crusted into the lace like a stain I’ll never scrub clean.

I stare at my hands. They’re shaking. My nails dig into the mattress. My throat is raw but I haven’t even screamed.

I think I’m in shock.

Then I notice it.

The ring.

Huge. Obnoxious. A diamond so big it catches the light even in this dim room. I turn my hand slightly and find a little speck of dried blood stuck in the crevice between the setting and the band.

I scrape it off with my thumbnail, gritting my teeth until my jaw aches.

What the fuck just happened?

I’m married. I think I’m married.

And I might have just saved my father’s life—the same man who told me he wished he wasn’t my father.

I clutch the edge of the be
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