Chapter Forty Three - Home!

Rebecca

I was anxiously pacing the apartment as I waited for Jake to get back. He had to text me to say he was on his way home. I did smile when he wrote the word home in the text. But right now, I was just hoping he would be OK after seeing Lauren because he mentioned she was there.

I hear the front door open and go to give him a hand in with his things. I noticed the redness of his cheek.

“She slapped you again, didn’t she?” I hissed.

“Yeah,” He shrugged.

“I swear to God see if I ever see her, I am going to slap her,” I barked.

I am sick and tired of her lifting her hand to him.

“Becca, I am fine, my love,” Jake said, “It isn’t the first or even the second time she has done it,” He added.

“It should not have happened, ev