Bound By Cruelty

"Write to your father."

"Why?" she whispered, her voice trembling.

"I'm divorcing you. Write him to take you away tomorrow."

Her world shattered. "What? No... please, I beg you!"

In a world where marriage is duty and power, she was a pawn-a plain, timid wife bound to a cruel nobleman who never wanted her. But when humiliation becomes her daily burden and love feels like a distant dream, how far can she go to survive the crushing weight of his cruelty?

He controls her fate. She clings to hope. But in his world, mercy is a foreign concept.