JOANNA’S POV
I stared at him in shock as I quickly stood up. He was about to walk away, so I grabbed his arm, stopping him. He yanked my hand away before pushing me again. I stumbled back and fell to the ground on my buttocks.
For a brief moment, I could not understand what was going on. Why was he behaving like this? “Babe, why-“
“Don’t you ever call me that!” he yelled as I got up.
“Why? I thought you wanted this. It’s your child. Our baby. All the times we-“
The words got stuck in my throat as he wrapped his hands around my neck, forcing my back to the tree and strangling me. The look I saw in his eyes differed from the person I had known all this while. His eyes held no gentleness that I was used to.
It was filled with something new and scary. His aura filled the entire forest an
