Chapter 33: Spare No Pity

**Trigger Warning: This chapter contains depiction of sexual abuse that may be upsetting for some readers.**

DAHLIA:

I didn’t know what came over me. I was enraged but also extremely exhausted. My body was hurt a lot, and my head was spinning. I wanted to throw up some more…

Suddenly, I felt myself floating into air again, but in a different way. I never felt lighter in my whole life.

‘Sleep, Dahlia… I’ll take over…’

Eva’s voice was so comforting that I readily succumbed to it. I let myself float aimlessly into a void.

I began to wonder… Why did Tristan do it? Why did my husband, a person who was supposed to love me, do it? Was this side of him always there? Was that the real face of the person I chose to marry?

Maybe I made a mistake… Maybe I shouldn’t have married him too soon…

In an instant, I became conscious of something else… I became aware of the smell of the earth and the feeling that I was going away somewhere else.

‘Eve… What are we doing?’