![]() Because Zach is a controller and she has to show him that she cannot and will not be controlled and that all the champagne and big, soft eyes and compliments and expensive fish in the world is not going to change that. She thinks of how he has manipulated his way into still living in her home, still sharing her bed, and she thinks of how she let him and she thinks no, no, this can’t be a kind split, this can’t be ambiguous, this can’t leave any room for anything but animosity and pain. Kim sometimes thinks that women practice being mothers on men until they become actual mothers. The writer is Sophie, who moves to a quaint English village when her boyfriend becomes head teacher at a private school. She thinks of how he wants her to give up her college course, give up her friends, stay at home, save money, be a good mother. People are easier to deal with if they underestimate you. ![]() She thinks of the feel of his finger under her chin, poking hard and deep into the softness there, forcing her to look him in the eye. She reminds herself of the night she slept over at Scarlett’s, the barrage of increasingly abusive messages and videos, the way he pressed his face so close to Noah’s, using him to get to her, to scare her, to bend her to his will. “But no, she reminds herself, no, tonight is not real. ![]()
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