The Master's wife
I stared blankly at the cracked mirror in front of me while two younger girls pinned white fabric around my body, the wedding dress hung unfinished from my shoulders like a ghost waiting to swallow me whole.
“I’m trying,” I whispered.
Mother Ruth sighed heavily. “A wife cannot enter marriage looking weak, especially not the Master’s wife.”
The words made my stomach twist so violently I nearly became sick, the Master’s wife, even after two months, hearing it still didn’t feel real, that was a lie, It felt real every second, that was the problem, every morning I woke hoping it had been a nightmare, only for reality to crush me again the moment I opened my eyes, the Master had chosen me out of
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