I used to pray you know, pray to God that He would somehow stop it. All the nights of listening to my mother scream and things breaking. Of holding my brother and sister and listening to them cry and begging me to stop it.'
My voice is slow and steady like a freight train at night.
'I was too young, and we were always told that they'd put us in foster homes where people would rape us if we ever said anything. So we explained away the bruises and my mom wore big sunglasses whenever she left the house. And we invented car accidents if the bruising was too bad to cover with make-up.
Tags: fear lies secrets denial society-denial hidden siblings hiding threats abuse screaming domestic-violence physical-abuse bruises foster-home abusive-family societal-denial
Don't play his game. Play yours.
Rachel CaineTags: survival stalking morganville-vampires abuse surviving claire-danvers stalker domestic-violence
What are you going to do? Are you going to live in the dark, locked in here? Afraid to look out, answer the door, leave? Yes, he's out there, and he's clearly not going to leave you alone until one of three things happens: he hurts you and gets arrested, or he makes a mistake and gets arrested, or you stop him.
Rachel CaineTags: stalking morganville-vampires abuse claire-danvers stalker domestic-violence stalkers
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