My Husband Destroyed the Kitchen Camera Before the Police Arrived — He Never Knew My Late Father Had Built It to Keep a Copy
It kept me.
In the end, the hardest part of defeating Derek was not fooling him.
It was not letting the fooling of him cost me myself.
Chapter 6 — He Thought I Had Surrendered
My doctor sent me home after three days, wanting me to rest somewhere quiet and familiar, and Derek took my silence, and my return, as surrender.
He became almost tender, which was somehow the most sickening part of all of it.
He changed my bandages with careful hands.