Two months earlier.

Why the hell is she ringing me again?

‘Hi.’

Muffled crying is all that comes back to me.

‘Soph, what’s wrong? You can’t keep doing this.’

‘He hit me,’ she says.

‘I told you to leave him last time. Stop calling me. I can’t hear about this anymore. It’s impossible to move on with your voice constantly in my ear. I don’t know what you think you’re doing. Is this punishment for Ava? I know I deserve it, I really do, but…’

‘I’m a prisoner,’ she says.

‘What the hell does that mean?’

The sound of a tissue rubbing across the receiver.

‘He won’t let me leave.’

‘He...

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