Chapter 1
I was Jasper Colthorne’s caged canary, imprisoned in his basement for five years.
Every time he slept with me, his barren wife would come down to torture me.
Over five years I got pregnant six times. She tortured every single one out of me.
This was my seventh pregnancy.
Vera tied me to the operating table, stabbing a needle into my belly over and over like a maniac. “Bitch! Why do you get his body and get to carry his children? You deserve to die!”
Jasper held Vera close, looking down at me from above.
“For what you and your father did to Vera back then, she’d be justified in killing you.”
I clutched my aching stomach and begged Jasper for help.
“Jasper, please, save the baby–this is your flesh and blood too!”
But Jasper only gave me his cold, indifferent back.
When I finally stumbled to the hospital step by step, the baby was already dead in my womb.
My uterus was too severely damaged and had to be removed.
When my father learned this news, he struggled to the hospital rooftop and jumped.
“Summer, Daddy won’t burden you anymore. Run away!”
I was heartbroken.
I’d paid what I owed them. Time to leave.
I dragged my post–surgery body over and collapsed on my knees in front of Dad, sobbing my heart out.
Blood spread out from under him, soaking through my pants.
Jasper had used Dad’s medical bills to keep me prisoner for five years, and now he’d finally driven him to his death.
I was numb with pain, just kneeling there crying.
My phone rang. Jasper.
When I’d needed his signature for the hysterectomy after my miscarriage, he didn’t pick up.
When Dad died, he still didn’t pick up.
Now suddenly he’s calling me.
“Summer, it’s been a whole day. Why aren’t you back yet?”
I sobbed into the phone, “Jasper, our baby’s dead! I can never be a mother again-”
Maybe it was those brief moments of tenderness he’d shown me in bed.
That made me want to grab onto him like a lifeline in my darkest, most desperate moment.
Silence on the other end, then his cold voice came through.
“Good riddance. At least Vera won’t get upset again.”
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5 Years His Caged Pet, Now His Regret Is My Revenge!
Chapter 1
A sharp pain stabbed through my chest.
His cruel voice came again: “Vera’s too pissed to sleep. You’ve got ten minutes to get your ass back here and calm her down. –
“Oh, and she wants one of those little cakes from Newbury Street. Pick one up on your way.”
I pressed hard against my chest, doubled over gasping for air..
“Jasper, I’m never coming back to be tortured by you two again.”
“Summer!”
That one sentence set him off. He roared my name, then dropped his voice to a menacing whisper.
“Your dad’s care costs twenty grand a month. Think real hard before you try to defy me.”
“Don’t need it anymore!”
I hung up, completely broken.
I forced myself to handle Dad’s funeral arrangements.
But after five years as Jasper’s prisoner, I didn’t have a dime to my name.
