Enemy within

SOPHIE.

After our sex, he picked me up and took me to the bathroom, he bath me and tuck me under the duvet because I was exhausted already. When he tucked me in bed, I thought he was going to return to his room but he got into bed with me , he later beside me facing me, I was going to protest , he wrapped his hand around my waist, he tightened his hand around me. “ I just want to hold you to sleep” he said. I was going to speak again , he just place his finger on my lips. “ Ssshhhh” he said.

I kept quiet and raise my head and place it on his chest, listening to his heartbeat, I didn’t know when we drifted into sleep.

The following morning.

I could feel the sun peeping through the window, I open my eyes, I got out of bed and walk to the bathroom, wash my teeth then I walk out of the room, as I climb the stairs , I could the voices of my daughter chattering.

KAIRA.

Jeff had just left for work while the children had been taken to school by the driver and their nanny, I was busy checking