Valerie sobbed behind the wheel as she drove home down the darkened highway. The sun had already set despite the long summer hours- she had worked late, again, and it hadn’t been a good day even before that. She felt scared, and, worse- hopeless.

The last few knots were always the hardest, pulling the ropes holding her to the back of the chair tight around her own chest.

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