The transition to cruelty did not happen overnight but arrived as a series of small corrections designed to erode my confidence and spirit. He told me that I would look much better if I put in more effort and reminded me constantly that I was lucky to have such a patient man.
By the time I realized that his rules were becoming a cage around my life, I was already locked deep inside the bars without a key. Then he decided to hire a young woman named Skylar Fox to be his personal assistant at the office.
He claimed that she was a harmless addition to the staff while she was actually loud and hungry for the status that Jensen loved to flaunt. Within a few short weeks, her name became his excuse for every late night and every mysterious hotel charge that appeared on our accounts.
He stopped touching me entirely and treated me as if I were a problem from his past that he was waiting to discard. When I found out that I was expecting a child, I foolishly thought that I could fix our broken bond with the power of unconditional love.