Chapter 54

MELISSA'S POV "Don't fucking stand there and stare at me! I asked you a question, Who was that man that just brought you back home?!" It was way too early in the morning for anyone to be drunk but Ken always found a way to do things people wouldn't intentionally do. Fear was hastily making it's way into my system as I struggled to respond, "He just came to drop the kids off cause Mel asked him to" I tried to get him to understand but the alcohol was setting in too far, I wasn't getting true. Ken waved his hand in front of my face and i braced myself before the slap connected, it felt like my lip had been torn from the force of the slap and when I felt it, I realized it actually had. "Do you think you can lie to me?! What the hell do you take me for, Melissa?!" He was screaming at this point, my eyes darted towards the door, the kids could probably hear him shouting and prayed they were asleep. I made yet another attempt to pacify him, "There's nothing going on between us, nothing