The Whole Town Swore My Fiancée Ran From Our Wedding — I Found Her in the Woods, and I Believed Her
“I found Vivienne bound with rope in the freezing forest,” I said, loudly, to the whole room.
“And she has told me plainly that you ordered it done.”
Delilah’s eyes went wide with a flawless, practiced grief, and she dissolved into tears.
“I raised that ungrateful girl as my own daughter after her mother died,” she wept, “and now she accuses me of monstrous things, because her poor mind is confused and sick — ” and then she delivered the blow she had been saving, the one designed to destroy Vivienne’s word before it could ever be spoken.
“Her mother, Naomi, saw enemies everywhere too, at the end, when her mind went.
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