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The Ritual Shantel Tessier 12480K 2023-08-28

He set to that But first, eat”

“No!” I tell hi Matt kill hi he tells me?

He lets out a huff

My hs “You need to eat—”

“Fuck you!” I screa

“That’s it” Matt charges towardmy hair with one hand, he yanks my head back and shoves the toast into my mouth, down my throat

I choke on it, pieces flying from my lips

“Don’t do that,”him away from me

I scraain

“She needs a doctor” I hear Matt growl

“I knohat’s wrong with her,” my mother states

“Yeah, she’s been knocked out for two days She needs to eat”

“No,” rees

I sit back on my ass and wipe the spit from my chin

“She’s pregnant”

I haven’t officially confirmed it I wanted to wait a few more days before I took a test because I’ve been late before Even when I was on birth control, and I didn’t want to get my hopes up I drop my eyes to the floor

“Son of a bitch!” Matt hisses “You let him knock you up, you stupid bitch!” he yells atbastard!” He kicks the cabinets

I look up at hi so hard, it’s made me cry “He’s my husband!” I shout back at hi, “He can do whatever he wants with me”

His face goes red with rage “He’s fucking dead, Blakely Just like that baby is about to be” He begins to roll up his sleeves Then he fists his hands, walking over to me

Myhi?”

“Getting rid of it,” he ansith a huff

I shove away fromy knees to my chest I watch them wide-eyed face one another Ryat may be dead, but I won’t let them touch our baby I’ll find a way out of here I’ll buy myself some time