Rude Awakenings
He returned it with urgency, fisting his fingers in her loose ponytail.
As he broke away, his hand remained, his breathing heavy while his heart thumped sporadically, “I guess you want to know what happened to me, how I got to be so fucked up when she sounded like such a good woman.”
“I don’t think you’re-”
“I am. You don’t have to pretend to make me feel better,” he cut her off, nodding as if proving his point. “My dad was abusive. She always had a black eye or a broken bone, but she stayed because she was so religious, she thought she could pray the devil out of him. She did everything to make him happy, and he used her like a fucking punching bag. He fucked other women. He was gone all ni