All Chapters of The Wife He Underestimated : Chapter 21

TRIGGER WARNING!!!This chapter has content that some readers may find disturbing. Please proceed with caution. ❧PAIN.It wrecks my body from the inside as my eyes open with a start. My head is banging, vision swimming as I struggle to my feet. Before I can stop it, I jerk forward and vomit.Sick hits the floor with a splat, staining my ankles and pooling around my feet. I’m panting for breath, trying not to gag as the last of the vomit drips into my hair. A whimpering sound comes from the left of me and I turn. Something is moving on the floor, buried underneath a stack of rusty chains, like a dog. I squint at the odd creature until it turns towards me, and I gasp in shock. It’s a child. A little girl. Curled on the floor like a kicked puppy. She’s filthy—blonde hair matted to her scalp, a tattered dress hanging off her skeletal frame, as she shivers on the concrete floor.Her skin is stretched so tight, I can see her ribs poking out through a