“Did you come here to save me?” It was a question so naïve it was almost laughable—yet within it lay her final hope. But the man, wearing an expression full of disgust, replied: “Of course not. I came here to...

Who am I? And how, I wonder, will my story end? My life is not easy to explain, but it is pathetic. I had been used till I had nothing left to give. I had been cheated on by the man I was to marry. I had been...