My Death, His Eternal Regret

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I had been dead for nine years when Gale Montgomery, the disabled boyfriend I once threw away like trash, finally returned to the city.

His first move upon his return was to hunt me down and make me pay.

Because I had once slapped him, he hired thugs to crush my father's hands until the bones were powder.

I once forced him to his knees in the mud, so he drove his sleek car straight over my mother's legs, shattering them forever.

I once made him eat scraps from a dog's bowl, so he used a j