“He hit me. Hurt me!” she said, biting her lips. It wasn't a pleasant memory, and remembering those moments made her shiver from the pain and from fear.
“f**k! That bastard! I’ll kill him!’
Amaya didn’t know what she’d expected when she finally told someone the grimy truth after all these years, but seeing Chase furious, bristling with rage, and ready to defend her, she suddenly knew she’d made a mistake by bottling all this up.
If he hadn’t told her the truth when she’d left, she'd have done him the same discourtesy, and if they were to have a future, she needed to tell him everything.
“When I left home, it wasn’t out of some misguided selfish dream notion. I had to leave. His escalating violence left me no option.”
He swore viciously and voraciously, clenching his hands as if he’d l
