Romance · fiction
A Place Beyond Their Pity
By the time Cora Evans turned twenty-six, she had learned that pity could hurt worse than cruelty. Cruel people usually said what they meant. Pitying people smiled first. They lowered their voices when she passed, touched her arm as though she were already grieving, and spoke about her future as if it had ended before she was old enough to...
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