UNDER HER ROOF,UNDER HER RULES
I said, my voice steady though my heart raced, “I will serve my husband because I love him, not because I am ordered to, especially not in front of everyone. I am his wife, not a child, and not a maid.”
The air froze. Forks paused midway, and glasses hovered in hands. My husband’s eyes widened as though he was seeing me for the first time. Mama’s face tightened, her lips pressed into a hard line.
“In my own house?” she hissed. “You dare to talk back to me in front of my family?”
I held my ground, even though my knees threatened to buckle. For the first time, I wasn’t just shrinking into silence.
I looked around the house on which she always bragged about, a house which was built by her late
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