Toward the Light from the Ashes
Language: en
After seven years of marriage, I was his collateral for a debt, the ATM in my mother-in-law’s eyes. I had boiled all my love and hope into a bitter medicine made from my trampled dignity. Until forced kneeling in the chapel shattered my knee, until the call from my dying father was cut off without mercy— I finally saw clearly that the man who kept saying he loved me had never truly cared whether I lived or died. This debt settlement called marriage was due to end. Chapter 1 Grace Gardner's POV “Grace Gardner, this is your seventh year in the Foster family as collateral for a debt, isn’t…