"I don't want him to think of me as weak!" She admitted in an agonized hiss. "He'll be like the others. It will take him a long time to understand why I couldn't run away, why I couldn't fight you even though I tried." She let out a dry, ragged sob. "I've tried so hard to get away from you, for years—and I still see it in the eyes of the people we see when we're outside. They think you kidnapping me is a lie I made up to mask my shame for betraying them by marrying you."