Raelynn's POV

“Leave. Now.”

There’s no mistaking the firmness in my voice this time. Those two words echo louder than anything, carrying the weight of my resolve. My memory snaps back to the days before my business bore fruit, and the hollow sting of checking my desolate bank account day after day. That account, opened at eighteen with hope, lay dormant for years. Then came my marriage to Roldan, and that thread of independence was promptly ...