Dead to Please Him
After my younger sister suffered an allergic reaction from eating the food I cooked, my husband flew into a rage. He grabbed a whole crate of red wine from the house, pinned me down, and forced it into my mouth.
"You should feel Rosie's pain too!"
Soon, red rashes spread across my body, and my throat began to swell.
On the brink of death, I begged him to call an ambulance, but he locked me in the room instead.
"Take your time and enjoy it. Only when you suffer enough will you stop hurting others."
In despair, I felt my throat closing, and my skin itching unbearably as if pierced by needles. I scratched my skin until there wasn't a single patch of unbroken skin left.
Three days later, he finally decided to show mercy and make it up to me with a candlelit dinner.
"I bet you have learned your lesson. As long as you behave from now on, you'll still be Mrs. Henderson."
However, he would never see me again. By then, my body had already turned to ashes.