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CHAPTER 24 - Desperate Measures

Autor: Lila Williams
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Richard's mistake was underestimating how much pain I could endure while staying conscious.

He took me to a penthouse—forty-seventh floor, downtown, glass walls overlooking the city that had become my prison. Guards at every exit. Cameras in every room except the bathroom.

"Welcome home," he said, as if this sterile cage was something to celebrate.

For three days, I played the broken doll. Ate when told. Wore the clothes he selected. Sat by windows and stared at nothing.

But I was counting. Guard rotations. Camera blind spots. The seconds between Richard's visits.

On the fourth day, the bathroom window—reinforced, but not unbreakable—became my focus.

That night, Richard brought dinner. "You have been so good lately. Compliant. I think we are finally making progress."

"I am tired of fighting."

"Good. Fighting is exhausting." He set the tray down. Steak. Wine. A prenatal vitamin because he was still obsessed with my health. "Eat. You are too thin."

I took the vitamin. Palmed it instead
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