Seeing Red
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Last published Thu, Oct 12, 2017
Anastasia and Samuel have been married for seven years but, when their relationship goes sour Ana needs to make a decision for not only her but for her five year old daughter, Frankie.
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"Samuel stop. We are not doing this. Just let me go, let me leave." He pins my arms behind my head and begins to kiss me. It isn't passionate, it's aggressive, out of pure anger and almost hatred. "Sam-stop it." I cry between breaths. My own husband was going to rape me and there was nothing I could do to stop it. He towers over me and weighs almost 100 pounds more than me and most of it is muscle.
"Sam stop." I'm crying now, pleading with him. "You can't love me."
"But, I do love you, Ana." My heart both softens and aches at these words. I knew it wasn't true but I wanted to believe it for one night so, I stopped fighting him.
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