The Butcher's Bride
And when she fought back, he butchered her.
My mother wasn't a victim of war. She was a failed science experiment.
I forced myself to open the binder again. I flipped past my mother’s death certificate to the next tab.
Subject 002: Celeste Black. Status: Active. Current Location: Secure.
There were charts. Graphs tracking my growth, my height, my weight. Medical records from my childhood doctor who I now realized was on Magnus’s payroll. Every flu shot, every blood draw, every physical I had ever had was in here.