The Wife Who Returned
Something had changed, something in the calculation had moved, and they were doing it now, tonight, whatever it was.
I fought Maribel harder.
She was stronger than me right now and we both knew it and I fought her anyway, using everything I had left, which was not as much as I needed, and the binding went on my right wrist with a finality that I felt in my chest, and then she grabbed my left and I thought, this is not happening, this is not how this goes, and then the left went too and I was back in the chair and Maribel was breathing above me with her ruined nose and her borrowed eyes and her complete absence of anything that resembled remorse.