Helpmeet

by Naben Ruthnum

I knew Edward wouldn’t be able to keep any promise he made to me, even if he didn’t know it himself when we were engaged. That was my first power over him: that I knew that, knew his nature, while he still had to discover it.

I cannot explain to you how it feels because I am too cowardly to feel it. I don’t understand how it would be tolerable without the morphine.