Thank heavens Jayden was sitting by his phone all bright-eyed and bushy-tailed at that godforsaken hour of the morning. He picked up on the first ring.
“Come get me. I want to go home.”
He could tell from my tone that something had gone wrong.
“Are you okay? Did he hurt you?”
“Just come get me now.”
Somehow he got from our home to the house in nineteen minutes. It was the longest nineteen minutes of my life sitting like a slattern on their couch and listening to them f**k in the other room.
Even worse was listening to the silence when they were finished. No one came out of the bedroom to check on me. Perhaps Denrique assumed I was long gone already and just drifted off to sleep.
I saw the headlights of our family Subaru finally pull into the driveway and silently I let myself out th
