Chapter 110 His Reckoning: Part 1

• Content Advisory: This chapter contains themes and depictions of emotional and psychological distress, verbal intimidation, manipulation, and betrayal. Reader discretion is advised.
• I sit at the vanity, the morning light casting harsh shadows across it. My reflection stares back at me, caught between the woman I’m supposed to be and the traitor I’ve become.
• I drag the brush through my hair again, watching dark strands catch the light. The repetitive motion should be soothing, but nothing can calm the storm in my chest—not after last night’s suffocating silence at dinner, not after the endless hours lying awake in our too-large bed, waiting for footsteps that never came.