What Daddy Left Behind
I pictured the brilliant, towering man I married—the man who commanded boardrooms and dismantled hostile takeovers with a terrifying, cold-blooded efficiency.
"For years, she subjected him to horrific emotional and physical torment," Julian said, his voice trembling with a suppressed, homicidal fury. "She conditioned him, Thea. She rewired his entire central nervous system. She taught him that any resistance, any spark of defiance, would be met with an agonizing escalation of pain. She literally beat the fight out of him, programming him to completely freeze and submit whenever she raised her hand or lowered her voice to a certain register."
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