Right up until the moment you make sure he can never un-see it again.

Chapter 2 — The Obedient Wife

I didn’t argue.

I didn’t scream.

I simply nodded, and picked up my bag, and let my husband believe that I was going to spend fifty hours standing in a freezing train car because he had told me to.

Julian took my silence as proof that I was still the obedient wife he believed he had trained me to be across the years of our marriage.

He gave me a small, satisfied smile, the smile of a man whose control over another person is total and unquestioned, and he and Chloe turned toward the first-class cars, and I watched them go.