I trusted him enough to get wild and naughty on my knees for him and had no regrets about that. But crying like a baby made me far more vulnerable. No denying his Daddy-dom ways put me at ease. Still, I couldn’t believe I told him everything.
everythingI couldn’t even say it silently to myself—the part about my baby.
I’d stayed with an evil man, allowing him to treat me like s**t, only mustering the courage to leave after he did the worst thing imaginable. Every day, I lied to myself about being over it.
Rex was right, I thought, staring at the small patches of snow that remained on the ground as we passed them by on the way back home. I got away from the worst mistake in my life, but somewhere along the line, I’d lost myself. He insisted on driving me the entire way, saying he’d get so
