Ava: I was out of breath when I woke up that morning. I struggled to breathe, feeling as though I’d just been drowning, not sleeping. The headache I was having, that threatened to split my head in two made me disoriented. I had to place my palm on my head before I could make sense of my surroundings. This was strange. I was in my room, my old room. This was the room I’d shared with Scott after our marriage, until he convinced me to have my own space to enable me ‘concentrate’ better. A feeling of dread and irritation engulfed me right then when I remembered the different lies I’d been told, wrongly believing they had been trying to help me. They must have really thought I was such a fool, swallowing all their lies hook, line and sinker. Maybe I was, because now I knew the truth, it was almost embarrassing how glaring the lies had been. I froze. The truth… Was it possible? The thoughts, images and memories all came flooding at once. Memories of the past, finding out
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