Laura
"I'm telling you, Laura, you will give me what I want, you will beg me to take it!" The monster said, dragging me across the floor.
"Leave me alone!" I screamed, earning myself a hard slap.
"You don't talk to me that way, I own you, Laura I own everything that has anything to do with you," he said, pulling my hair backward, making me look at his face.
"I'm not yours, Jack and I don't want to continue this relationship with you!" I said with all the courage I could muster.
"What did you just say to me?" He asked, his eyes looking like there was a fire in them.
"I am breaking up with you Jack, I don't want to ever see your face,"
"I've taken care of you for many years and now you want to break up with me? No baby, you are not allowed," he said, releasing my hair.
"You don't take care of me, you take care of my parents, You know I've never taken anything from you,”
“I'm only in this relationship because my parents forced me, You know that too, you can stop taking care of them, I am no longer interested and that's it," I said glaring at him.
He looked furious but I stayed strong, I couldn't afford to be weak.
"You know what? I am going to go out now and when I come back, you had better be back to your senses!"
"I am not changing my mind, Jack, I don't want to do this anymore," I said, determined to make him get the message.
He raised his hand like he was going to hit me but I didn't flinch. When he realized that I wasn’t afraid of him like I usually was, his hand dropped to his side and he left me sitting in the middle of the sitting room.
I waited until I was sure he had driven out of the house, then I broke down in tears, crying my eyes out.
I'd been in this forced relationship for about two years and all I’d gotten is loads of beating, tears, and pain.
Jack started asking me out three years ago, but I always told him I was not interested he tried for months but I kept rejecting him.
I don't know who gave him the idea, but someone did and it worked, he met with my parents, showered them with gifts and money, and in no time my greedy parents started pressuring me to accept him, they even threatened to disown me if I didn’t accept him, foolish me, I did what they wanted and told Jack yes.
Jack was ruthless. I knew this from the beginning of the relationship and he never tried to hide it, he always acted like he owned my body and soul and he expected me to agree to all his demands which always caused problems because he had a lot of them and they were very unreasonable.
Jack wanted me to sleep with him but I didn't want to do that, I would always refuse and he would, in turn, beat me up.
I always told my parents but they never did anything about it, instead, they would tell me to give him whatever he wanted, that it was my fault he beat me up.
I slowly realized that to my parents, I'm just a ticket to money and luxury items, and Jack only sees me as a sexual object, he believes I have nothing else to offer.
I realized none of them wanted the best for me, they were only interested in me for what they stood to gain and didn’t care or think about much else.