Chapter 39 LIVE LIKE

Chapter 39: Live Like

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Things were simple. It was so simple that all it took was for Astrid to continue to cowardly and undignifiedly comply with any of Rosie’s unreasonable and even insulting demands.

But in the deepest part of her heart, she was greedy—she wanted that long-lost “respect” so that she didn’t have to be like before and only needed to be like the most ordinary person to get the respect of “human” that she deserved.

But apparently, things didn’t go as planned.

Since then, Astrid hid her heart, which was riddled with holes, even deeper. She hid the things that her heart longed for in the depths of her soul, where no one could touch them. There was darkness, cold, and loneliness as when the deep sea was at its most still.

Rosie came and went. She always arrived at mealtime and left after delivering the food.