“I will make you miserable if you stay,” she said, though it hadn’t come out sounding as much of a threat as she would have hoped. “I will give you back every bit of pain you gave to me and more again.” “That’s fair. And just.” “I will have you working until your back breaks in service of me,” she said, and she tried desperately for the ferocity she had possessed only days ago that had somehow deserted her. There was a wealth of disorder in her mind; every ugly thing that she had buried down deep coming up again and out and filling her with a wretched jumble of conflicted emotions. “I’ll
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