THE NIGHT I HEARD MY HUSBAND CALL ME “OBEDIENT,” I LEFT HIS PENTHOUSE WITH HIS HEIR IN MY WOMB — BUT WHEN HIS ENEMIES CAME FOR ME, HE BURNED HIS EMPIRE TO GET US BACK
He let his men discuss my body like I was livestock. He called our marriage “business” while I stood outside the study holding whiskey and a positive pregnancy test. So I left his ring on the nightstand, vanished into the October night, and didn’t know his enemies were already following the life growing inside me….
