"You speak of worth like you are worthy to take someone's life, as if you are suitable to take my friend's… a beautiful girl's… life," she spat, a quivering tremor in her speech born from both consternation and revulsion. "You're not God. You're not mine, nor shall I be yours. I haven't the faintest idea of who Genevieve might be, but her desires and mine are not parallel in the slightest. Though if she loathes you like I do at this very moment, then we possess something similar after all. And that is a far more plausible claim than imagining anyone would want to be with a monster out of their own volition."
Though her words were interposed with overwhelming sobs that rendered her dialogue nigh indistinguishable, Juliet fought to be understood. Only then did she resolve herself for her succeeding acts. A wave of courage flooded her as she vehemently yanked herself away from the bedpost, far enough that the leash grew taut and ripped the collar from her neck. Aware that it might harm her airflow, it was a better way to perish than in the hands of this delusional man. Just as she expected, the material dug to her throat, painfully so, yet it gave away and she was