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Chapter 22

FAITH POV: I feel bad the way I'm treating TIm. He's right. He might of just saved my life from Dan. he was about to leave. "TIM! Wait.." "For what? For you to yell at me again? For.. " "No! Okay? I'm sorry. You're right. You may of just saved my life and instead of being thankful, I'm being.. " "A bitch?" "yeah!" i said quietly. He walked back over. "Faith, do you know why I even got upset?" "because I wasn't being nice to you when I should've" "it's more to it then that! That man who was he?" "My ex husband Dan" "so that was Dan. I figured" "What does that mean?" "When I was about a year old, My mom married this man, my step father. He treated me like his own at first. Then when I got older, things got different. My mom had my two sisters as well. Anyways, he started to drink a lot. He would come home drunk. When he did. I knew to hide and hide my sisters, but he never really hurt them. He started out hurting my mom. She would cry. It killed me to hear her crying. When my step dad, Horace, was passed out, I'd go to check on my mom. She would have bruises and..." "And what?" "Well there was a few times or so, it got so bad, she had to go to the hospital. The last visit, she was diagnosed with cancer" "oh my gosh" "yeah but she got beat it. She's a tough lady. Anyways, My mom swore that if she beat this cancer, she would get us out of that situation and away from him.  We had to go home to get out of there when he came home. He was totally wasted and he..." "did he hurt you?" "yeah!" "how old were you?" "9 years old" "oh my gosh" "yeah but before that he had hurt me before. I never told my mom about it until after we got away from him. Anyways, so when I saw what Dan was doing, it brought that all back. I couldn't take it or stand to watch any man hurt a woman like that"  to hear Tim's story, just blew me away. I was speechless. But I can see there's more he's not saying. "Tim.. there's more isn't there?" "yeah"