The devil's Trap

Lindsay POV

When I heard the front door close, my heart skipped a beat. I knew my parent were gone and now Asher could do anything he wanted. The door to Leia's room was locked, but I was still trembling. He had keys to all the rooms in the house, so the door couldn't protect me.

Leia was already asleep in my arms. I tucked her carefully into her bed and I slipped off to stand behind the door.

Nothing happened for the first few minutes, but I then started hearing footsteps coming upstairs. My heartbeat picked up pace instantly. It was so loud that I could hear it.

Tears trickled down my eyes as I wrapped my hand tightly around the rod in my hands.

The footsteps kept coming closer. With each thump, it felt as though my life slowly slipped away from me. I was so scared that I couldn't hold on to the rod properly. It was all sliding down my sweaty palm.

The footsteps stopped at the front of the door and I held the rod firmly, waiting for him to come in so I could end him once and for all, but he didn't open the door. Instead of using his keys, he knocked instead.

“Lindsay" he called out as he knocked. “Open the door"

“No Asher," I said trying to calm myself too. “You are going to hurt me"

“Now why would I? I won't..." He broke off. “You know I have the keys to this room right? If I wanted to force you, you'd be out without me having to say a word"

“Asher please" a whimper escaped from my lips. I didn't want to get hurt, but I also knew begging wasn't going to save me. There was no need to waste my energy. Asher had once told me that when I continuously begged him to stop hurting me.

“Can we not do this Lindsay? Do you always have to put up a fight over everything?”

"I'm trying to apologize and you are not listening”

He paused for a while. "Okay my love. I'm listening, apologize”

More tears poured down my cheeks."I made a mistake. I shouldn't have yelled at you, I shouldn't have slapped you across the cheek. What I should have done was” I paused cleaning the tears off my cheeks. "I should have dipped your head into the bowl of salad and watched you struggle. You son of a bitch!” I Yelled at him and heard him chuckle.

"So adorable. You see, your honesty is as matter of fact overwhelming” he said in sarcasm." You would do that to your husband Lindsay?” he asked sounding hurt.

That made me more angry. He would kill me if he was given the chance to.

"That slap was nothing compared to how many times you have hurt me, Asher”

"No no no. You are getting it all wrong, my sweetheart. You don't just listen Lindsay. You can't tell......”

"Listen to what! “ I screamed, not caring if Leia woke up. "You are impossible to understand. There is nothing I have done that has ever pleased you. You are fucking delusional. You want me to be a certain way. That way is too hard to follow Asher. I. Am. Not. Your. Fucking. Puppet!!" The moment the words left my mouth, the door flung open.

A gasp escaped from my lips, I hadn't even realized when he unlocked the door.

He stared at me with his angry eyes and I felt I was going to divide into two. He walked slowly towards me while I kept going back. I moved back until my back pressed against the wall. That was my dead end. The rod I held fell out of my hand and I was too scared to pick it up.

“Asher please" I begged with trembling lips.

"No” he stopped in front of me."I am not going to touch you. I want to hear what you have to say”

That was a trap. He wanted me to get him angrier than he was. He had done it once. I was so happy that my husband finally wanted to listen to me until he beat the shit out of me the moment the last words evaded my lips.

"No” I shook my head."I have nothing to say”

"Are you sure about that? Because you seem to be pouring your heart out when the door was between us. We are married, we should learn his to communicate better” he caressed my chin with his index finger.

"Asher can we not do this here? Leia is asleep. I don't want her to wake up” I said, trying to get away from him, but the worst happened.

Asher grabbed me by my hair forcefully and pulled me back to my initial position. He pulled so hard that it hurt my scalp.

“I wasn't done talking!"He screamed in my face.

He didn't give me a chance to recover from the shock. With a fistful of my hair still in his hands, he dragged me out of the room. I didn't dare struggle because I knew the more I struggled, the more likely my hair was going pull from the scalp.

He dragged me downstairs until we got to the sitting room. Then he tossed me to the floor.

I was still recovering from the push when he smacked me across the face. So hard that I felt the place spin. He was about to hit me again, but I screamed.

“Asher!" I screamed at him. “If you hit me again, this will be the last time you set your eyes on me"

That didn't stop anything. He smacked me much harder directly in my face. It was so painful that I found it harder to breathe.

“If you think of divorcing me, you better kiss your goodbyes to Leia. You will never set your eyes on her again. I'll make sure of that" he said and left me there.

I cried so hard, not because of the pain, but the words he said. He just used my love for Leia against me