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British (England - South East - Oxford, Sussex) British (General)Transcript
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that first time Lee hurt me. I mean, the first time he actually left me with physical injuries. I had to take the next week off work. I pretended I had flu. To be honest, I must have sounded rough when I found it on a Monday morning. It took a week for the marks on my face to be sufficiently disguise. A ble with makeup. The only thing left was cut to my lip, which ended up looking like a particularly horrible scabby cold sore. My nose, fortunately, didn't turn out to be broken, or if it wass it wasn't a bad break. He stayed with me for five days. The next morning he was distant. He looked at me as though I'd been especially stupid and managed to fall over in the street. Nevertheless, he made me some soup and helped to clean me up, wiping my face with surprising tenderness. The following day he was exceptionally gentle. He told me I was the only woman he ever loved. He told me I was his only hiss. If any man ever looked at me, he would kill them, he said it dismissively, as though it were a remark that could be made casually in conversation with little meaning. But I believed he could do it. He meant it for the time being. I had to play along with it for those five days. I tried to be what he wanted me to be. I told him I was his only hiss, that I had made a mistake by trying to end it, that I loved him. When he left to go backto work on Wednesday night, I considered my options. At first I stayed at home in bed, watching television and pretending nothing had happened. I waited and waited in case he came home again in case it was a test. I wanted to call the police, but I knew he would cheque my phone. I wanted to leave the house, run, run as fast as I could to the police station and hope they would protect me. They wouldn't. Of course, he would be questioned if I was lucky. And then there would be some sort of inquiry, during which time he would be free to come and go free to hurt me. Free to kill me. It wasn't worth the risk. On the Thursday I called an emergency locksmith and got the locks changed on the front door and the back door. That night was the first night I started checking properly.