Chapter 39. After

Vanessa’s POV

After the beating last night I decided to head home early. I wasn’t ready to get another beating when my body hadn’t healed. I would just have to finish off my work from home. As I drove I asked myself how I had left a man to treat me like trash.

I was Vanessa Pounds for crying out loud! I usually always had my men at the back of my hands.

I usually played slows to lift my spirits. No one had any idea what my life was like. People had never been in my shoes and those who I had tried telling had judged me. I had tried to leave once and had left home for a month before Tristan caught up with me. It was then I suffered the worst beating of my life. He kind of felt that he owns me and I don’t think I would ever escape him, I was like his property, God helps me.

“The only way you get to leave my house honey is when I decide you can go,” he had hissed when I came to the house that day he found me.

I was back in our matrimonial home and I