Reason Enough

“You…you made me do it!”

Reyona shook her head to herself as she thought of what happened the night before. She still couldn’t believe that the man she thought she knew was so different from the man that Thomas had become.

She thought of the fact that he might have been like that all along while he had successfully hidden it from her, just like everything else. She berated herself for having been a fool, all in the name of love and acceptance. She wondered how many other things she did not know about him that she was wrong about.

She never believed that the Thomas that she knew would touch a woman with violence, whether under influence or not.

“That shows how naive and unaware you have truly been in this marriage,” she muttered to herself in the confines of her car. Her lips curled in a bitter smile. She drew in a sharp breath as the stiff, pain-filled side of her face protested.