IZIGORA
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'Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.' - Maya Angelou
Izigora is an orphan who has always wanted to belong to a family. She marries the top benefactor of the orphanage but everything isn't always what it looks like from the outside.
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How could she have married this mad man?
Dry sobs raked her body as he poured more salt on her wounds and began to massage the salt into the wound with the efficiency of a masseuse in a spa.
Izigora went into her most private place where she was alone and shut out the world around her. Tears were for the weak. She wasn't going to let him break her. She shut out everything, no longer aware of what he was doing to her.
'I could just end your life right now,' he said, sounding like he was far away. 'But I want you to live with the knowledge that you're only alive because I chose to spare you. Every breath you take is only possible because I let you have it.'
He let go of her neck and rose to his feet.
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