Nowhere Is Safe From Him
Language: en
My father brought home a stray. A secret son, a bastard—whatever you wanted to call him. He had this way of being perfectly submissive, always wearing a sweet, hollow smile and calling me "big sister" as if it were a title of devotion. But behind my back, he was a gatekeeper of the most violent kind. He made sure no one else could get close to me. Any young man from a decent family who dared to get engaged to me ended up ruined—maimed in accidents, or rotting in a prison cell. When the truth finally came out—that I wasn't even the true daughter of the Blackwood estate—I took the chance to…