Today, I Stop Dying for You
Realizing that something was off about me, I still rejected Ingrid when she begged me to let her stay.
"Mr. Franklin, please, I beg you, don't fire me! I'll do anything, even if it's just running errands or cleaning up. My parents are gravely ill, and my younger brother is counting on me for his tuition. I genuinely cannot afford to lose this job!"
However, when I witnessed Ingrid being harassed at a banquet, looking so disheveled and terrified, my protective instincts completely took over. At the end of the day, she had already been my woman; she shouldn't have to live such a degrading, subservient life anymore.