"Don't"

"I'm in love with him Jig. I keep carrying on to this hope that he will change and go back to his old ways," she said.

"And if he don't?"

"I-I don't know," she replied as tears started to form in her eyes, "I really don't know."

"That ain't love Alexus. For a man to put his hands on you ain't love. I hope you know that," I let her know. She just gave me a helpless look.

That look to me looked like a cry for help. She wants to be saved. She wants me to be the one who saves her. It's messed up because I don't know how to.