For She Is Wrath

by Emily Varga

“You don’t get to decide my retribution.”

The problem when someone you loved betrayed you was that you had a lifetime of good memories with them that you had to examine in a different light. What was once a safe place to be—beside him, engulfed in his arms, inhaling the smell of rainstorms and pine—was actually the most dangerous place of all.

“You know I’d follow you anywhere, Dani.” Something twisted in my heart, and I was suddenly robbed of breath in a way that had nothing to do with the battle.

A history of women and girls being wronged by men who never had any consequences. Now I would be the consequences.

“I choose vengeance. I choose death. And in the end, that’s what you chose too.”

You may have given him forgiveness, but that doesn’t mean you owe him kindness.”