Every day I clean the Winchesters’ beautiful house top to bottom. I collect their daughter from school. And I cook a delicious meal for the whole family before heading up to eat alone in my tiny room on the top floor. I try to ignore how Nina makes a mess just to watch me clean it up. How she tells strange lies about her own daughter. And how her husband Andrew seems more broken every day. But as I look into Andrew’s handsome brown eyes, so full of pain, it’s hard not to imagine what it would be like to live Nina’s life. The walk-in closet, the fancy car, the perfect… Read more.
Trigger and Content Warnings
- Graphic domestic violence & abuse, including captivity, torture, unethical surveillance, and gaslighting (on-page)
- Infidelity & divorce (on-page)
- Weight gain discussed (on-page)
- Infertility mentioned (faked)
- Incarceration for assault recounted
- Psychiatric hospitalisation for (perceived) hallucinations recounted
- Captivity by intimate partner (on-page)
- Physical & psychological torture, including forcing someone to remove their own tooth, and in a domestic violence context (on-page)
- Stalking
- Near-drowning of an infant child recounted
Context : The second narrator, Nina, covertly hired the main protagonist, Millie, as her housemaid in order to trick her into killing her husband. Nina has been abused and tortured by her husband, who even tried to drown their newborn daughter and gaslight her into believing she did it, for years. She is institutionalised after the incident, and convinces herself she hallucinated the abuse & incident, until it begins after her release. Nina believes she can make her husband fall in love & leave her for Millie, possibly even coerce Nina to kill him in self-defence, so she can escape with her daughter. She goes as far as to fake infertility, Millie was incarcerated for nearly fatally assaulted a man she caught sexually assaulting her friend.
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