Astrid’s heart pounds heavily as the guards lead her away and into the car. She stifles the tears that brim in her eyes, fighting to make sure they do not fall. Zane is cruel, evil, a monster. Not only is he going to make her suffer for a crime she did not commit but her kids are going to watch her as well. Does he really have no heart? Does he not think of the level of psychological damage that sort of event can have on her children? It will leave them traumatised. Even if they grow to understand that she suffered the punishment because of a crime, it doesn’t stop the anguish and terror it would have caused them in the moment itself. What sort of a man is Zane? What kind of a father is he? What did she even expect from him? He knows nothing about having a family. He constantly neg

