Chapter fourty-four

Charles.

"How long has he been raising his hands on you?" I asked Lolita, feeling so concerned and yet so angry that I start curling my fingers into fists and clenching them hard.

How dare him hit her? How could he do such a thing?

"Since I opened up and told him that I have a child somewhere. He got so jealous and couldn't hide it anymore. Started maltreating me. Nearly killed me with beatings, while I was still carrying his child. I almost lost my baby. And after I put to birth, the beatings increased. He would call me a whore, and tell me to go back to the man I had a kid for. He would come home drunk at night, and then beat me to stupor. Made me his punching bag." Lolita bursted into tears as she looked away from me in shame and self pity. Even her baby was crying so hard, that I felt my breath got caught up in my throat.

That the office was filled with the cries of a woman and a baby.

Max snapped his head to look at the