She’d dropped the domestic violence charges against Dan, of course, after he’d thrown her car keys into the frozen creek. What choice did she have? She had nowhere else to live. The state pressed forward with the case anyway. She’d hidden in a closet rather than accept the subpoena summoning her to testify against him in court. That had landed her in jail for a weekend for contempt of court. She ended up serving more time than Dan did for that beating. Faced with the choice between obeying Dan and obeying the law, Shannon obeyed Dan, most of the time.
