Seeing the Truth
Language: en
At eighteen, Mike stormed into my home and shot my stepfather ten times. As police dragged him away, bloodied, he grinned at my shocked face. "Rachel, don't be afraid. No monster will ever hurt you in the name of family again." After prison, he found me scavenging through trash, bullied by thugs. His fists tightened. He took me to the city's underbelly, where we knelt, and he rebuilt himself into the feared King of the Docks. On our wedding day, he casually gifted me the entire Copperfield district as a dowry, declaring to all that I, Rachel Vance, was his life. But at twenty-eight, he was…