Chapter 47

Bradley’s veneer of civility was slipping away by the day and more and more he had become angry at her. 

This time it had been over something miniscule to anyone else, but not to her husband. She had yawned when he had been talking to her about what he had planned for the days ahead of them. She had tried her best to be interested and look that that way when he spoke to her. It just seemed like she was growing more and more tired as the days went by. He had grabbed her by her shoulders and shook her hard.

She remembered trying to break from  from his grip. There was no use, so instead she begged for her life. She looked into his eyes.They were cold. He didn’t seem to care.

He railed at her and called her a slut and a whore with a bastard in her belly. He slapped her hard then. She fell to the floor ha