My Deceased Wife Wants a Divorce novel Chapter 48

“You stay put in there, or I’ll beat you!” the lanky man warned.

Hannah stumbled into the cage, her forehead hitting the iron bars. By the time she turned around, the cage door had been slammed shut and locked.

From that moment on, her world was framed by bars. She was trapped in a dog cage so small she could only sit, unable to stand up or even stretch her legs.

She sat there in a daze for several minutes before her senses returned. She drew her knees to her chest, wrapped her arms around them, and rested her head on her knees.

It was humiliation, despair, and an overwhelming sense of disgust.

Even as a child in the orphanage, being bullied by other kids and abused by the director, or later being tormented in school, she had never felt this humiliated.

Time and again, she had fought back against her tormentors, showing them that even without parents, even being small and thin, she was not someone they could push around.

But the strong, resilient woman she was had stumbled time and again when it came to Lionel. He had repeatedly shattered her dignity, grinding it into the dust.

Tears soaked her clothes until her eyes were dry. The grief in her heart was as thick and dark as ink.

Through the bars, she watched the blue sky and white clouds appear after the storm. Her body felt feverish and weak. She leaned against the cage, her mind a blank slate, trying not to think at all.

“If Lionel really doesn’t show up, what do we do with this woman? We can’t just keep her locked up like this.”

“If he doesn’t come, we’ll put a hood over her head and dump her somewhere. Look at her. It’s not like she’s in any state to get revenge on us,” the bald man said, taking a picture of Hannah with his phone and sending it off.

The lanky man looked at her and clicked his tongue. “I thought that even if there was no love, a rich man’s wife wouldn’t be left in such a pathetic state.”

“There’s no love among the rich. It’s all an act. But her husband won’t even bother to put on a show. It’s a joke,” the bald man laughed.

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