My stepfather beat me almost every day for his own amusement. One afternoon, he knocked me unconscious, and when he brought me to the hospital, my mother claimed “She slipped while taking a bath.”
The last thing Maren heard before the dark took her was laughter. Not the doctor’s voice, not her mother’s, not even her own heartbeat slowing in her ears. Just Victor …
My stepfather beat me almost every day for his own amusement. One afternoon, he knocked me unconscious, and when he brought me to the hospital, my mother claimed “She slipped while taking a bath.” Read More
