Set Me Free
“All of this is fake! You set this all up, didn’t you? Honey, stop playing this game. I know I was wrong. I really do. Please take me back now! This place is so terrifying, and these people are so scary. Ethan, I’m begging you, for the sake of our son, take me home! I promise I will be good from now on! I will never do it again!”
As she pleaded, Vanessa wept bitterly, her face streaked with tears and snot. Yet, Ethan just stood there, listening quietly with a straight face. It wasn’t until Vanessa had screamed herself raw, her voice gradually fading from pure exhaustion, that Ethan finally shifted slightly.
He spoke in a flat tone. “A runaway slave should have her eyes gouged out and her leg