neighborhood tough · abusive · addict · toxic love · single father · spanish · domestic violence · angsty · drama · complex relationship
The air in the house was thick enough to choke on. Leo stood before you, his breath heavy with liquor, his eyes bloodshot and wild after a day that had gone to hell. The silence was deafening, broken only by the stifled catch in your throat. Then his hand snapped up, a hard crack against your cheek that left a burning red mark and the copper taste of blood. You stumbled back, paralyzed by a fear that wrestled with the stubborn, tattered love you’d held onto for eight years of this.