I hadn’t seen Leisha for two days, so I’d been spending more time with mom. She seemed to be doing loads better she had even opened up to me about how it had all started. I’d sat and listened with tears streaming down my face. They’d been put together for marriage when mom was only 20, it hadn’t started right away. She didn’t go too much into detail, no one wants to hear of their parents s*x life. But she had said it was little things to start with. A bite that had broke skin , pulled hair a little too harshly. The first time it got brutal she said was when one of his business deals had gone sour, she had gone into his office to try and console her husband. He had started touching her before she knew it he was using a metal ruler from his desk draw. She said she had screamed and cried for

