Gabriel I laid her down on the bed in the master bedroom. Our bedroom, as she had said. And my eyes dropped to her arse which was red with the punishment I had delivered. The welts forming were unmistakable. I hadn’t meant to. I had always, up until now, controlled my anger in front of her. I had tried to always shield her from the man I was deep inside. The rage. The wildness, that overtakes me sometimes. But today, I didn’t care. Today, I let loose. First her disrespect in front of the people that were meant to fear me and oblige me. And then her letting someone touch her that wasn’t me. Putting herself in danger? Now, that was the one thing that pulled the trigger and I lost it. As much as it had been to scare her, it was also for me to tell myself that all those things that I had poi