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“Don’t you walk away from me!” Robert’s footsteps pounded behind her.
“I’m taking the kids and leaving!”
“Over my dead body!”
The twins were terrified as they hid in a closet. Terry tried to comfort his sister as she cried in his arms.
“Shhh,don’t be scared.”
“I want Aria.” Tiffany whimpered.
“Remember what she used to tell us?”
“We stay in the closet until it’s safe to come out.”
They flinched when they heard glass breaking.
“Put the suitcase away!” Robert yelled, entering their bedroom.
“I tried doing this the peaceful way with you”—she raided the closet—“But you’re just impossible to live with!” Grabbingsome essentials from the bathroom, she returned and finished packing. “Step aside please, Robert.” Her voice sounded shaky; she was afraid. “Please, move.”
“Or what? You’ll bulldoze your way through me?” He chortled.
“Let me leave!”
“Don’t make me raise my hand to you, Natalie!”
“Nothing you say or do will make me stay. So please, just let me go.”
“You’re not taking the kids! They’re my children too! Do you understand?”—he shook her shoulders—“Do you understand me or not?”
Natalie started crying, which only angered her husband more as he slapped her in the face.
“How do you like that? Doesn’t feel good, huh? I’ll smash that pretty face in!” He punched her across the jaw with a heavy right hook, causing Natalie to fall to the floor from the impact. “You wanted this, you stupid cow! You’re nothing but a lying whore!” He continued his merciless abuse, shouting profanities like a shameless demon.
What Robert didn’t know was that Evan had set up surveillance equipment inside his apartment. He was watching him.
“You two-faced bitch!”—he punched her—“… That’s why you want to leave me… because you’re a cheating slut!”
Natalie was bleeding from her nose, and her lip was cut. Curling into the fetal position, she tried to protect her face from further damage. No matter how much she begged, he wouldn’t stop.
“Happy now?” Robert kicked her in the stomach and yanked her ankle to trip her when she tried to get up.
He enjoyed seeing her helpless, crying and crawling like an injured animal. He often projected his own inferiority onto her.
“I tried so damn hard, Nat. I really did. But I think you like this, don’t you?” He laughed insidiously. “You love pissing me off!”
“Let me go!” she cried in terror as he flipped her onto her back.
Robert was about to thrash her with his belt when she kicked him in the testicles, paralyzing him in pain.
“I will kill you!” He groaned.
Natalie got up while he was still incapacitated. With trembling hands, she abandoned her suitcase and ran into her children’s bedroom.
“Terry! Tiffany!” she cried out in panic.
The little boy opened the closet, gasping in fear when he saw his mother’s injured face.
