Dumped in the Mountains as a Plaything
"How could you be so shameless, Rowan White? You're a grown man; why didn't you resist? You're my husband!"
Her words were laughable. When she abandoned me there while I was already on the brink of death, why hadn't she remembered that I was her husband?
I wanted to guffaw, but the muscles in my face refused to move. It made me look utterly desolate and despairing.
How could I have fought back? There had been a group of them, while I had been all by myself.
The villagers starved me, and whenever they felt like it, they would beat me within an inch of my life. Everyone in the village, men and women alike, could enjoy me whenever they pleased.