A Sickening Bargain

“So what if you’re married to her? You don’t love her. Didn’t you say you love me, Tris? My body is all recovered now. Let’s have another child, okay?”

“Chloe...”

What came next were the sounds of a man and woman getting intimate with each other. I squeezed my eyes shut and struggled to tune out those sounds.

The harder I tried not to listen, the more I was tormented by those noises.

As Chloe’s mo