Pills for Obedience
Language: en
The ring my husband Kieran White gave me was engraved with his first love Iris Yates' name. In a fit of rage, I threw the gold cufflinks Iris had given him into the sewer drain. He held my mother's critical medication hostage and threatened me: "Get those cufflinks back! Otherwise, you can watch your mother die!" I searched frantically through the sewer for a day and a night like a madwoman. Kieran threw the pills at my feet with satisfaction: "You should have been this obedient from the start. Don't worry, you'll still be my wife!" I stiffly pulled at the corners of my mouth and gently…