Huldah Stories

"𝑰 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒏𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒎𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒎𝒆" All Isabelle Whitlock has ever truly known was Gilead. Even if she was born in the "before world", Gilead is the only thing she knows. The before world was dark and cold. Full of the kind of the dirty girls Gilead saved her from becoming. In Gilead, she was raised properly. To obey. To serve. To become a good wife to her future husband. Her "mother" promises security for her, even with the mutual hatred rooted deeply in her heart. This is the life Isabelle is meant to want. No. The life she needs. And she tells herself she does. A husband. A home. A place where she is safe. So why can't she stop looking at the brunette girl she spends her days beside at the Aunt Lydia school? Why do her thoughts linger too long, drift too far, become something she cannot name without fear clawing up her throat? She buries it. She has to. Because girls like that are wrong. Dangerous. Disgusting. Because she refuses to be a gender traitor. Even if her heart doesn't seem to understand the rules. becka grove x oc