Obsessed mafia capo Shaylen once stabbed himself a dozen times rather than let me leave—yet in our third year, a therapist named Wendy hypnotized him into loving her. Under her spell, he slapped my parents 999 times at a single tear of hers, ripped out my womb, and forced me to raise the mistress's son. Each time he snapped out, he'd collapse at my knees in sobbing devotion. So I faked my death and vanished, leaving him drowning in regret.
