chapter 20

Alexa grew up with so much fear at home, she couldn’t live like a normal young girl nor did most things her mates did. Mark didn’t sleep with her anymore but he still abused her, he uses curse words on her and touched her in inappropriate places which had always provoked me and made me challenged him.

I recalled one time he had stabbed my wrist with a knife when he caught me searching his room. I lied I was going to school but hide behind the house and when he had left home, I sneaked back into the house with a spare key and went to search his room. Unfortunately, he forgot something and had returned back home to get it when he caught me searching his room. It had made him very angry and he stabbed my wrist with a knife he kept under his pillow.

I sustained a very severe injury in which I couldn’t use my left hands for months which also made me unable to practice or play football. But it didn’t stop my determination to find out the truth, I pretended to have loosed interest in searchi