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SIN
Storyline
A revenger's tragedy of lust, cruelty and betrayal.
'I believe now that I was exposed too early to goodness and that I
never recovered,' says Ruth, a beautiful woman possessed by a terrible
envy. From small acts of malevolence, she is drawn into a maelstrom
of destruction, where innocence and goodness are no defence.
Chapter 1
I never knew her really.
I came closest to her through her husband, the man with whom I now live. And through her son, whose name was Stephen.
And through the lie.
There were some, not many, whose world it was natural for me to enter, searching for a secret knowledge of her. And others, peripheral figures, on the outer edge of whose lives I waited, silent, hooded. Hoping to trap some fleeting image that would light my path to her. Whenever I lost her, I slipped under the dark waters of my own life, tracing, from beneath the gloomy waves, the faint white glimmer of her soul. And when she hid from me, I sought her out. For I knew she hid only for advantage later. Subtle, secret, opaque, I would crush her yet.
Though she wounded me beyond pain, I too inflicted deep hurt. Not
born to murder her, still I sought to break her. With a small silver
hammer of exquisite design, I would seek the exact point at which
even the gentlest pressure would smash the glass. And her substance
would be mine. Sometimes, it is in the split-second half decision
we nearly didn't make that we stumble by chance into ecstasy, or despair.
But chance did not bring her into my life. By grand design she waited
for me. In my own home. She was my mother's first child. Though not
her firstborn. A terrible injustice to me. Her name was Elizabeth
Ashbridge. And I even envied her that. |
