She Died in Chains , Now He's Crawling Back

Three years ago, the narrator was a college girl from the city, engaged to Leigh Simmons. After Ivy Chambers accused her of cruelty, Leigh tore up their marriage contract, drove her to the Bleakridge mountains, and paid Chief Hargrove to keep her there for three years. Chained in a pigsty, she was fed rancid slop, suffered repeated miscarriages, and had her legs broken. When a hemorrhagic labor nearly kills her, a mechanical voice tells her the suffering quota for Leigh Simmons is fulfilled and asks if she will abandon her mission and exit this world.

Leigh arrives in a black suit with bodyguards and private physicians, ordering a high-dose stimulant to keep her conscious. He dismisses her wounds as props and pig blood, kicks her hand away when she reaches for him, and says Ivy Chambers has not forgiven her. Dragged out and thrown into a car, she is flown to the city, wrapped in tarp, and dumped in the Continental Hotel ballroom, where Leigh stands with a microphone before the guests and points at her.