Edward’s voice blasts in my ear, “Sophie Wiliams! It is so late. Why do you keep making Claire stay at your place? I have had enough of this! Claire is your cousin, not your mother. She is pregnant, married and doesn't need your endless problems dragging her down! Can you have some shame and stop bothering her every day for no reason? Why are you so determined to ruin our lives? Just because I left you doesn’t mean you can destroy my family out of spite! Claire is a very innocent person. If you keep using her like this, don't blame me for being rude! Hurry up and send her back home!"
Edward seemed to have reached his limit, bombarding me with his anger. I let his yelling wash over me and I felt oddly calm. Actually, when I was dating Edward before, I thought he was the sweetest, gentlest gentleman.
But every time he was nice to me, Claire would use horror cases of husbands who murdered their wives to warn me. She said men are inherently hypocritical; the more perfect a man seems, the more dangerous he is.