Let the Lovers Have Each Other
"Don't make this difficult, Ruth. You know I have plenty of ways to make you sign 'willingly,' right?"
I glared at him, my hatred boiling over. But in the end, I lowered my head and signed my name on the last page of each document. But at the very end of my name, I used my fingernail to make the smallest, nearly imperceptible dot.
This was a secret mark that only Moira would recognize. It was a code from our school days. If we ever had to sign something against our will, we would leave that tiny mark beneath our names.