Before this, the constant reminder of the absence of an unsafe environment, , Elora had never once considered... A permanent way out.
Even though she did live in the shadier parts of town, and even though she had incurred debts that foreshadowed her entire existence being insufferable as she worked her ass off to settle them, she never once had to look over her shoulders while doing so.
To discern the loansharks she might have lend money from enforcing repayment by terms of blackmail and threats of violence ... Which she did not, but legally gone through a bank.
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The voices between father and son, in-law and husband, had come to an end. A chat she had not been able to pick out whom the winning side had been awarded to.
Having located herself at a far off distance, well up the f
