Valerie
His tenderness disappeared faster than I had time to process. One moment, he was cleaning my face and placing bandaids on my skin with such gentleness. The next he was storming out the doorway, rage taking over his dark eyes.
All of the chaos was too much for me. I went back to that scared little girl I thought I had left behind. The girl who cowardly ducked between blows and hid in the closet to escape the glass being shattered against the wall. I sat there, on the old rickety couch in the cold cabin with its broken door sobbing quietly to myself.
I could have easily unlocked my phone, but why? That was my only life line once I regain reception and I couldn’t risk any harm coming to it. Plus, my entire life, what’s left of it anyways, was stored on that device. My banking accou
