Your Ruined Knees Cannot Save Us

Summary

Less than a year after I faked my death, Thomas Oswald found me.

But no matter how he knelt on the cold ground, begging, I refused to go back with him.

Until he used his power to throw my elderly parents into a state penitentiary.

“Novia, if you don’t want me supporting Lydia, I won’t bring her into our lives anymore. Just come home. Can’t we go back to how we were?”

Thomas’s eyes were bloodshot, his voice thick with desperation.

“You don’t want your parents spending their remaining years rotting in a maximum-security prison in the frozen North, do you?”