Chapter FourPain was the first thing I felt when consciousness crept back in…a deep, brutal ache that radiated from my core through every muscle, every bone.I'd woken earlier, when pale morning light filtered through the curtains, but moving had been impossible. My body felt broken, used up, wrung out like something disposable. It wasn't my first time with Julien, but last night had been different. Last night, I'd said no. Last night, he hadn't cared.Hours. He'd kept me there for hours, taking what he wanted while I lay beneath him like a corpse, counting the seconds until it would end. And then, at the height of it all, when his fingers dug bruises into my hips, he'd groaned another woman's name into my hair.*Véronique.*I'd felt something die inside me in that moment. Some last fragile hope that this was still a marriage, still love and still something worth saving.Now it was evening, and my body finally allowed me to sit up, though every movement sent sharp protests through my
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