Loving a Lie
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Last published Sat, Apr 11, 2026
They call my husband the embodiment of cruelty.
Demetri Ferraro was forged for control, vengeance, and bloodshed without conscience. Strangers murmur cautions about what he might do, forgetting I sleep inches from him nightly.
If only they could witness what I have.
There's a terrifying authenticity to our marriage. With me, he's attentive to the point of reverence. I wear his fingerprints like brands. His vigilance wraps around me, reflexive as breathing.
I trusted him completely because betrayal seemed impossible.
That was my undoing
The merger of our families cost me things I didn't know I was losing. I salvaged only the skating rink-solitary hours on pristine ice before dawn or after midnight.
The architecture of my future was more elaborate than I comprehended.
The truth doesn't announce itself with confession.
It arrives without remorse, manifesting as inevitability, as though questioning his constructed reality was never an option.
I don't doubt that my husband loves me.
For the true terror of Demetri Ferraro isn't found in shadows or violence.
It's in how he determined I belonged to him, by systematically eliminating any alternative path.
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