“Carson, Sam dinner is ready go wash up and have a seat at the table.” Rebekka yells out the door. “Coming mom! Whatever is for dinner it smells good.” “Thank you baby, now go wash up. Where’s your dad?” “He did not say anything about coming but I know he heard you. I even told him to come on let’s go eat and he threw a wrench at me as I was leaving,” “Here sit and start eating, I will go get your father.” Rebekka goes out to the garage and is met with a hammer thrown at her, this time she ducked so she would not get hit. She is so tired of being battered every time she sees him. “Carson why are you doing this? It is dinner time for once just come in and eat like a family does. It really won’t kill you to do this you know.” “Shut the hell up bitch! I will never eat dinner with you and Sam and you know it so quit trying. You are such a waste of time, piece of shit, both of you are.” She just turns and walks back inside and sits down to the table where she and Sam start praying for their meal and thanking God for their food and blessing them for what they have. Sam is seventeen years old with reddish brown hair and Hazel round eyes and a senior in high school and cannot wait to leave the house to get away from his father but is very reluctant to leave Rebekka behind. He knows all too well that he will never see his mother again if he leaves her in this house with his abusive father, she will end up in the hospital again but this time when she goes she will go straight to the morgue. Carson Niles is a fifty year old man with dark brown hair and almond shaped brown eyes, who was abused by father growing up everyday, every second he was awake and sometimes when he was asleep. His mother was the same way and he swore he would never turn out like his mom or dad but he actually did. He did not know how to control his anger and took it out on his family and refused to get help, he doesn’t think he has a problem, it’s everyone else who has the problem. Rebecca is a sweet hard working fifty year old woman who light red hair with blonde highlights and green round eyes. She comes from a hard working family that loves hard and plays hard. But when she met Carson her world stopped and she married into an abusive family without even knowing the background. Her family, specially Dee Lyons-Mackley, has tried to get her to leave him and take Sam with her since he was at the age of three. She has stayed all these years and Dee knows that she is a shattered angel and cannot take much more abuse. What will she do to get away from her abusive husband? How will she do it? Read and find out.

Chapter 1 Carson Niles

“Carson you did not finish the dishes, do the laundry, clean the house and mow the grass! Get off your ass now and get it done or you will be punished!” His father yelled at him.

“Dad I am doing my homework for school.”

“I do not care your chores are more important boy, get them done NOW! And do not ever talk back to me.”

Carson angrily gets up and pushes his chair into the wall behind him goes to the sink and washes the dishes by hand. Heaven for bid he gets to put them into the dishwasher that he is not allowed to use. Once he is finished with that he moves onto the other chores on his list and does them fairly quickly so that he can get back to his homework.

He hears a dreadful scream coming from outside and runs to the back door where he hears the sound. He sees his mom on the ground clinching her stomach and then there’s a bone crunching sound coming from her face as he watches his father punch her in the face. He just stands there and watches with a smirk on his face knowing that is what she gets for doing the same thing to him.

“You Son of a Bitch keep your hands to your self.” She yells at her husband.

She looks back at Carson who is smirking at her and runs towards to her son opens the screen door and body slams into him punching on him.

“If you would have done the house work like you were supposed to I would not have gotten these beatings, you bastard.” She tells him with every punch, hit, and kick she makes on him.

He takes the beatings per usual and when his mother was finished beating him his father started in on him. He could not catch a break from either of his parents. He did not understand why his dad was angry all the time from the time he woke up to the time he went to bed and sometimes he would get abused during g the night for no reason.

Carson swore up and down to GOD that he would never do this to his wife and family. He would walk away until they both calmed down and come back together and talk the problem out. He hated being at home around his family and could not careless if either one were to parish and never to be found.

After he graduated high school he left his home in North Carolina and moved to California. He went to UCLA and partied with the best of them had many girlfriends. He drank all the time and did drugs of all kinds but graduated at the top of his class. He does not know how he did it but he did.

A few months after he graduated he had a job with a promising future then he met his future. His wife, but he had to get to know her before making her his wife. He remembers the promise that he made not so long ago and wanted to hold onto that promise.

He ditched his habits of drinking and drugs and got cleaned. He did not reveal his not so long ago past history to her and probably never would as he was moving forward to something better. He got rid of his old friends and started making new ones that were more positive and lived the lives as christians.

“Hey I have never seen you here before what’s your name?” He asks a pretty dark haired girl.

“I have been here for two months you must not pay attention to what or who is around you.” She replied sarcastically.

“Huh, little sarcastic are we not darling?”

“Got a problem with that because I sure don’t, and that so called pick up line does not work with me.”

“Wow, I have never been turned on by a pretty little thing like you before. How about we go out on a date?”

“Hah, I don’t think so and before you ask why, you’re not my type bud.”

“Okay, I’ll bite, what has made you so hard and mean the way you are?”

“I really do not think it is any of your concern for one and two I said no. So you need to move a long and find someone else.”

Rebekka walked off and went about her day. She just started working at the coffee shoppe four months ago when she graduated college. She was in the process of looking for a full time job. She likes her job but hates the jerks that come in and try to hit on her.

Rebekka was off the next day and Carson walks in whistling a seductive tune while scanning the coffee shoppe looking for the girl he saw yesterday. To his dismay he did not see her but ordered a black coffee to go and left. He thought he would come everyday to see if she would even budge going out with him. He never had any problems getting women to fall for him and into his bed.

He could not figure out why she was not into him and blowing him off like she was. She proving to be a challenge and a challenge is what he up for and Rebekka was providing a good chase for him.

The next day she is working and sees Carson walking into the shoppe. She looks at her co-worker who looked to see who it was and looked back at Rebekka.

 Star walked by her, “He came in yesterday and was not happy that you were not here. Make him happy when he comes to talk to you it’s good for business,” then walks away.

Rebekka was shooting daggers into Star’s back and killing her with threatening looks. She did not want to look at this stupid idiot walking towards her.

“What can I get you, sir?”

“A cup of you,” he says with a quirky smile.

Rebekka just rolled her eyes and poured a cup of black coffee with cream and handed it to him. She did not care if he did not drink it or not she just wanted to get him out of her sight.

He took a sip of his coffee and spat it out onto her. She jumped back in time so she did not have to have disgusting spit on her from an irritating customer who kept harassing her.