Survival

ELAINE’S POV

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Survival was the first instinct I was taught when I was born, I saw how my mother’s life changed when my father lost all his fortunes, we were miserable, living every day off scrape, and my father began to beat my mother coming back home drunk every night and, in the morning, a new bruise on her face

Before she had dies, she told me never to settle for less, that I should aim for a good life, that if my life begins to move from good to bad, I should run, that love was not enough, I needed the money and power too

I didn’t heed her warning, I fell in love at 16 by 17 I was pregnant with him and had a child, he was in his late 20s but I was so in love, he was a wine maker a renowned one, our life was good, but it wasn’t what I wanted, this wasn’t what I dreamed to have

I loved my daughter anna with all my heart when she was born, but my heart wasn’t here I knew I could get more, and be more, I stayed for a decade with him, but he started getting sick, the money started