Chapter 37

I felt my face scrunch up as she continued to speak about my dad in such a positive way. I couldn't believe that my dad had once been so nice that he had once been a gentleman. I could understand why my mum had fallen in love with him from what she briefly described him to be like. I was sure that my mum wasn't the only woman who had fallen for someone who wasn't what they seemed. "We had been going out for a few years before he started to act strange. He would lash out at any boy that would look at me, he would become more possessive and he would become violent. I stopped talking to my friends and I rarely left the house. I wanted to leave him and I had been packing my bags when he walked in and that was when he shifted for the first time in front of me. I was terrified; he didn't attack me he just stood there until he was calm enough to shift back. He had started to shout saying that I was never to leave him and I had been too scared to argue back. It was then that he ex