Behind Closed Doors

by B.A. Paris

‘I have nothing but contempt for men who are found to be violent towards their wives,’ Jack says firmly. ‘They deserve everything they get.’

He prides himself on uttering only the truth, and enjoys that I am the only one who understands the meaning behind his words.

And the more she screamed, the more he hit her and he found he couldn’t stop, even when she fell to the ground. And, as he looked down at her smashed and bloodied face, he thought she had never looked more beautiful.