Chapter 8 Big Bad Wolf

• Trigger Warning: This chapter contains psychological abuse, stalking, possessiveness, threats of confinement, and non-consensual physical contact. It also includes distress and trauma responses. Reader discretion is advised.
• What is my purpose? Is it to forever feel unworthy and useless? Am I only intended to yearn for my passion, only to never see it through? I sobbed at these questions as my grief shrouded me with hopelessness. If only I had never met Michael, or if I had started working earlier, even though he disapproved of the idea, I might never have been in this fucked-up situation.
• I am a complete emotional mess; my shower took longer than it should have, but I was somewhat able to gather what was left of my fragmented soundness. I need to get to the bistro ASAP and find my happy place. I don’t know why, but there it always feels like my true home.