Chapter 13: Take Off the Ring

They took Serena out through the north doors at 1:14 a.m. She begged. I want to be honest about that, because I'd imagined this moment for so many years and I always thought it would taste like wine. It didn't. It tasted like nothing at all. "Please," she said, when they had her at the threshold. Her face was ruined and her arm was ruined and she looked, for the first time in her life, exactly her age. "Elena. Sister. Please let me stay. I'll serve you. I'll clean floors. Don't put me out...