Booktree.ngIt-Starts-with-Us-Colleen-Hoover

I know the answers to these questions, but sometimes it feels good to
read the reminders. I go to my room and pull the list out of my jewelry box.
1) He slapped you because you laughed.
2) He pushed you down a flight of stairs.
3) He bit you.
4) He tried to force himself on you.
5) You had to get stitches because of him.
6) Your husband physically hurt you more than once. It would have
happened again and again.
7) You did this for your daughter.
I run my finger over the tattoo on my shoulder, feeling the small scars he
left there with his teeth. If Ryle did these things to me at the highest points
of our relationship, what would he be capable of at the lowest?
I fold the list and put it back in my jewelry box for the next time I might
need a reminder.