The Scar Beneath The Veil
She moved with difficulty, the exertion and the pain of her wounds making her joints ache.
Emiliano ignored the sheet. He looked at the discarded nightgown on the floor, torn and useless. He then looked at the bruises—the visible scars of the man he had just erased from her life.
"The physical damage is temporary," he stated, his voice clinical, almost medical. "But the mental conditioning is deep. You flinch; you submit out of fear. This must end."
He walked to a sleek, modern chest of drawers and retrieved a small, silver first aid kit. He returned to the bed and sat down heavily on the edge, the mattress sinking beneath his weight. He opened the kit, pulling out a tube of specialized a
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