Fragments of Ash by Katy Regnery

Author:Katy Regnery
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Cinderella, stepfather stepdaughter, secret service, sex slave, a modern fairytale, modern fairytale, fairytale retellings, new romance, recent release, best romance 2018, bestselling romance, dark romance, bestseller, New Adult bestseller, romance bestseller
Publisher: Katharine Gilliam Regnery
Published: 2018-09-30T16:00:00+00:00

Day #17 of THE NEW YOU!

It’s been a year.

A year since I married Mosier, since I wrote in this diary, since I chose this fucking life.

(Since I chose this slow and painful death.)

I have learned the rules to this life.

I have learned how to shut up.

I have learned how to keep my head down.

I have learned how far a human can bend without breaking.

I have learned that bending can be another kind of breaking.

I lost another baby today.

Taking a shitload of vitamin C a day every day basically ensures that I’ll stay sterile, but this time I was scared. It took a couple of weeks, but finally, today, my period came. Big clots of red and black tissue falling to the toilet in loud plops while I cried tears of fucki thanks.

Good-bye, baby.

Thank fuck God.

If I brought a child into this life, I would be damning my eternal soul to hell.

It’s bad enough I brought Ashley here.

When Mam and Tad visited in March, I begged them to move back to Anglesey with Ashley. She can be your daughter, I said. She can be beautiful and dutiful and good. She can be the me you never had.

But Mam doesn’t want to raise my bastard kid. And Tad looked at me with disgust.

“What do you think of us taking Ashley back to Wales with us, Mosier?” my mother asked my sadistic husband over dinner. “Teagan feels the change would be good for her . . . younger sister.”

I froze in my seat, cold, hard dread seeping into my bones like a never-ending disease.

My fingers curled into my napkin, and I bit the side of my cheek until I tasted blood.

I don’t know if she knew the price I would pay for her words. Maybe she did. Maybe that’s why she said them.

His eyes, so dark and furious when he looked at me, promised unimaginable pain in retaliation for my suggestion.

“Ashley stays here,” he said lightly, “at school, near her family.”

My mother shrugged when she looked back at me. “That’s that. Ashley stays here.”

I died sitting in that chair that night. Everything about me is fucki dead now except my body, which can still feel pain. My body that was subjected to extreme horror when my parents left after dinner that night.

If he finds out that I lost a second baby today, there will be more pain tonight.

But I will close my eyes and think of Ashley and of the baby I lost today. The baby I SAVED today.

And I will take it.

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