Promises will be Broken.

Those of us who have read the rest of the Portal series already know how this ends. We know what Sam is going to do, and we know how it happened.

Broken Promises is the story of Why it happened.

For the first time since he appeared at my car window my head was beginning to feel clear.

I had simply accepted so much, taken him at his word. He had controlled my life, dictated what and when I ate, where I slept and who with. How much of that was his use of the magic fogging my mind and how much was my simple gullibility, I am not sure. I would like to blame him for it but I suspect that at least part of the blame was mine to bear. Each time he was absent for a few days my thoughts would clear as if a veil was lifted. I would plan what to say to him, I would sit and knit as I rehearsed it all in my mind. I was going to ask him to let me visit home, I would come back to him, I would promise. He was going to see the truth in my eloquent words and he would open a Portal and I would walk through.

Then he would appear at my door with a meal and the planning and rehearsal vanished like smoke and I said nothing. It was as if he waved away my mind as he came close. I did everything I could to please him but it was never enough. Whatever I did, it was never enough.

We knew Sam had been hurt when she came home in The Portal Between, but only now do we, and Kate, find out what happened to her, what Ametsam did to cause her rage and pain.

Broken Promises is dedicated to anyone who has escaped, is escaping, or is still within, an abusive relationship. I seem to have known more than my fair share of people in that situation, or maybe there are more than we realise.

I wish you all the help and strength you need to rebuild the life you deserve. Even on the darkest days, stay strong, there is light to be found in time.

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