Echoes of Valerie

Valerie’s POV

I didn’t have to answer Nyssa, we both knew the truth. But rather than be frightened by being caught, that she might tell Bryce, I felt my own anger rising to match hers.

I was a grown woman. I should not have been made a prisoner in my own home.

“You want to ask me what I’m doing, well, what are you doing,” I demanded. “How can you agree with any of what Bryce is doing to me? Why ar