To make the biological daughter he’d only just found feel at home, my father personally carved my Core from my body. Then my fiancé beat me thirty times with a belt.
They told me if I called off the engagement, it would all be over.
Later, they staged an elaborate charade to make me believe our family was destroyed, all to force me to break.
That night, my grandmother, my mother, my two sisters-in-law, and my five-year-old niece all died.
Before they pushed open the chapel doors, the last thing they said was, “It’s only one night. How bad can it be?”
The doors opened.
My grandmother sat peacefully on the pew, her chest still. My mother and both my sisters-in-law were gone. My niece lay in my arms, her small body already cold.
I was wearing a wedding dress, with blood still crusted at the corner of my mouth.
By the time the sun rose, every woman in the Romano family was dead.
Make Them Regret It Chapter 04 It was well past midnight when the three men came in. One of them carried a metal canister. White fumes coiled from its mouth, and the smell was sharp and acrid. The man in the lead waved the keycard in his hand and grinned at me. “Miss Blythe, Isabella
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Make Them Regret It Chapter 03 I saw that smile. No one else in the room did. My father lifted his wineglass and asked my older brother, “Is everything at the chapel taken care of?” My older brother nodded. “Thermal blankets, backup generator, first-aid kit—I had my men take them over. The guards are loyal
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Make Them Regret It Chapter 02 When I opened my eyes again, I was floating near the chapel ceiling. Down on the floor, the woman in the wedding dress was me. My eyes were closed, blood still dark at the corner of my mouth. My grandmother sat in the front pew, her back straight, as
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