CHAPTER 38
It’s amazing what you can get used to when your options are all stripped away. Amazing how quickly I simply rolled over and accepted Chris’s anger problems as soon as they resurfaced. How his rough, unloving treatment in the bedroom no longer felt like degradation or abuse. Instead, subjecting myself to his every whim was simply a way I could build up his masculinity, which had taken such a fatal blow at the fertility clinic. I was nervous again, constantly on edge, constantly afraid I wasn’t enough for him, anxious he’d come home and find the house or his dinner weren’t up to his standards.
Now that I’d increased my hours at the store, Reginald also became the focal point for my husband’s ire.
“Doesn’t that man know you have a family to take care of?” Chris would shout if tr
