Chapter 21. Reinvention

Victoria’s POV

The sun felt different today, warmer, as though the world was stretching its arms and waking up to a new day. For some reason, despite all that had happened today felt like a good day, it felt like it had a lot of promises.

As I stepped out of the hospital, my body still sore but my mind clearer than it had been in a long time, I realized something; nothing would ever be the same.

And that was okay. It was time to take control of my life, to stop being a puppet in Ethan’s world, dancing to the tune of his whims and desires. I had never truly lived for myself. But that ends now. Now, I will live for me, and for what I deserve.

But first, I needed to figure out how to make him hurt, how to break him in the same way he had broken me. I needed him to feel what I had felt, I needed him to ache as much as I had.

Now more than ever, I wanted to inflict pain upon him and Lily, I wanted to break down completely till they were absolutely not