I thought it was just a rash on my husband’s back—until the doctor saw it, turned pale, and whispered, “Don’t go home. Call the police. Now.”

from complications, Ethan would collect the policy. If I survived, the planted fingerprints and purchase records would make me criminally liable.

But they had first tested the restraint device on Ethan.

They had made the same mistake twice: underestimating my experience, and allowing their own cruelty to leave marks on one of their own.

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