This wasn’t what I signed up for. Hell, I don’t ever remember signing up for anything at all, but when there were debts to be paid, and time had run out, I was delivered to Miss May’s doorstep. The man who had paid a handsome fee to make me his wife was the only person in the world that I ever learned to fear. It was when he and I first locked eyes that I knew I was in for a worse hell than I could imagine. I never expected the cruelty that accompanied it. But rage can do something to a heart that once was gentle. It can do something to someone who was once quiet and full of hope. It can slowly turn a caged, once-frightened animal into a feral one. It did because I wasn’t afraid of him anymore, I was determined. And I was ready to break free.