Recognize

  So why is he wrong about me in his almost totality, he is really...hard and uncompromising in everything. 

  And yet there is no room for a woman like me, so did Amy take it all away?

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  She had been a prisoner for a day and a half, overflowing with rage and helplessness, she hated him, more than she ever thought she would hate anyone, him in whom she had placed so much hope. Could he not understand that he was the only obstacle to her growing loneliness? He had everything to be happy, everything, and yet he took refuge in his emotional detachment so detestable.

  He had left her his cell phone, threatening not to reveal anything to Mertillo or he would break her body and soul. Astieme also asked one or five or six times a week about him and she had to lie to him subtly so as not to arouse his suspicions as a doctor.

  For Azhewo it was another form of domination that gave him great satisfaction.