Hidden Husband Gets Abandoned
Her expression dimmed for a moment, but she still smiled and said, "I would have kept trying to escape. If I couldn't get out today, then tomorrow. If not tomorrow, then the day after. One day, I would have escaped that hell."
I asked again, "What if you never got out?"
She was silent for a long time. Then she answered, "Then I would have taken them all down with me."
I was deeply drawn to this stubborn, unyielding girl. She was like a wild weed, thriving defiantly in barren soil.
Later, Maeve and I got together.
When she learned about my past, she held my hand with great tenderness and said, "You have a family now."
On the tenth anniversary of our being together—the year I turned thirty—Mae