The Sunday Wife: A Lockdown Thriller by Adriane Leigh

Author:Adriane Leigh [Leigh, Adriane]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-07-21T23:00:00+00:00

Twenty-Five

“Look at this pretty girl in her Sunday best.”

Thick fingers shaped like calloused sausages tugged at my shoulders. I pressed my knobby-kneed legs against the metal bed frame, wedging myself under the mattress to avoid his contact.

“Come to papa Chuck. Give me a hug, girl.” I cringed at the slur in his words.

Tears leaked at the edges of my eyes as I squirmed out of his feeble grasp, my lungs screaming with the need for fresh air. Chuck’s palm yanked at the last place he could reach then, my strawberry dress from church tore at the seams, the dainty spaghetti strap not nearly strong enough for a grown man’s grip.

I crammed my eyelids tightly closed, fresh tears melting down my cheeks as I prayed over and over for someone to deliver me from under this mattress. With the smell of cat excrement in my nostrils, I prayed for deliverance from this desperate place. I prayed for a miracle and I believed that if I prayed hard enough, maybe Bradley or someone else would knock on the door and interrupt all that fighting they were always doing.

I fell asleep clutching my strawberry dress to my chest and blocking out the vicious insults mom and Chuck hurled at each other late into Sunday night. At some point he shuffled out the door, fired up his car and left mom early before he had to be at work Monday morning.

I hated Sundays.

Bang. Bang. Bang.

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