Commands and Healing

She had never known what it felt like to be in control. She lived in the shadow of her husband's cruelty, shrinking into silence. Then a medical exam brought her face to face with the last man she should have trusted—her husband's uncle, a mafia boss who took orders from no one. Except her. She gave him a command, and something cracked open inside her. She walked out of her marriage, and into a new version of herself she had never dared to become.