Chapter 10 - Standing on Your Own
He never promised to rescue Allison.
He never offered her another beautiful cage.
He never asked her to forget what she had survived.
He simply walked beside her and respected the pace she chose.
And Allison eventually understood that real love doesn’t arrive to rescue you as though you’re helpless.
It arrives to walk beside you after you’ve learned how to stand on your own.
Jason believed that forcing Allison’s face into a birthday cake in front of 47 people would prove how powerful he was.
Instead, that ruined cake did not become the symbol of the day Allison fell.
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It became the symbol of the day she stopped living on her knees.
And once a woman remembers who she is, no cruel husband, complicit mother-in-law, secret mistress, or cowardly crowd can force her back onto the ground.
