Chapter One
"Blood is thicker than water, but sometimes water is all you've got."
"So much pain! So much tears!" I wailed, my voice echoing through the empty house. Suffering seemed to be my constant companion, a dark cloud that had followed me since childhood. They said that suffering was temporary, that ease would come after. But for me, it felt like an endless night.
Men, men, men! They stained my white and still called me dirty. Life and men had twisted me into knots of pain. My name is...