Eighty-Eight Betrayals, One Escape

My fiancé stood me up for the 88th time, leaving me at the courthouse to rush to his adopted sister' s side.

I went home and overheard their twisted plan: they wanted me to get sterilized so I could raise their secret love child.

When his sister later tried to poison me, he screamed at me to apologize. He even locked me in the basement, knowing my severe claustrophobia, to punish me for "upsetting her."

The man I loved was a monster, and I had been his fool.

After he left on a business trip, I packed my bags, accepted a dream job across the country, and sent him one last text.