Complete Confinement

What she desired was freedom. What he desired was an heir. To obtain what they wanted instead of love, they began a precarious marriage. *** “I only need an heir. I have no need for a wife.” “I, too, have no desire for love. All I want is freedom.” She intended to give him the child he wanted and then leave to find her freedom. But as time passed, what she felt was not a yearning for freedom, but love for him. *** “Don’t leave me. I… I want to be confined by you.”