When your own beauty also becomes the reason for your misfortune: Portia should’ve thought twice before she rejected Issac. But this is not a real story…

  TRIGGER WARNINGS:

WARNING: This piece contains descriptions of sexual abuse.

WARNING: This piece contains descriptions of extreme violence.

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