I will devise a plan to run as soon as Alexi leaves the Hamptons. I did it once before, scraping together what money I could and changing my fate. Knowing when to get out has saved my life so many times. I found the courage, and I ran from Rick. He owned me too; he had done so since I was eleven. He made all my nightmares seem like fairy tales in comparison and then some, yet I managed to outrun him and disappear into the world. I could do it again, run further this time.

Alexi has way ...