RIAN
The thing about trying to break someone is that sometimes they’re already so broken that your efforts feel pathetic.
I stood in the kitchen doorway, watching Sarah clean up the mess I’d made with the plate, and felt something I didn’t want to acknowledge, stupidity.
I am honestly tired of trying to show her hell because it feels like she’s used to suffering so she sees it as a normal way of life. She absorbed all of my cruelty with the same quiet resignation that was starting to drive me insane.
Where was the breaking point? Where was the moment she’d finally snap and show me she was human instead of this robot that just kept functioning no matter what I threw at her? Can’t she just pack and leave already?
Most importantly, she’s turning me into a nuisance and monster at once. I
