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The Day Everything Broke

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Prisca stayed on the cold hospital floor long after Gabriel’s footsteps faded away.

She did not remember falling. One minute she had been on her knees, begging, crying, trying to explain. The next minute, the door slammed, and the man she had called her husband for seven years walked out without looking back.

The sound of the door closing felt louder than the words he had used on her.

Evil, Wicked, and Shame.

Those words still echoed in her ears.

For a few seconds, she could not move. Her throa
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