Chapter 6 Sean Gives Me a Ride

I don't remember how I left the café.

Zachary said he was going to be promoted to associate director at the hospital. "I can't afford any problems right now," he said, as if that justified everything.

He reminded me that my mother had passed away and that he was the only family I had left. "Think it over," he added coldly. "What good will it do you to leave me?"

Online advice would often tell women not to stay with a man while he "grows up," yet some people, like me, always thought they were the exception, that they had chosen wisely. That confidence would almost always be shattered. It happened to me, too.

Somewhere along the way, Zachary had changed. The compassion and sense of justice that once defined him as a doctor had eroded. All that remained in his eyes was an insatiable hunger for power and control. There was no reasoning with him anymore. He had become a man I could no longer communicate with.

I had my lawyer file for divorce.

A week later, we were in court. Unfortun