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Her Testament CHAPTER TWO Why I Always Choose Men Like Him When she began tracing the pattern, she did not start with him. She started with the house she grew up in. Her father was not an unkind man. He provided. He showed up to school events when he could. He did not shout unnecessarily. He did not drink excessively. There were no slammed doors, no broken plates, no visible violence that…

Her Testament CHAPTER ONE The Night I Found the Messages At 3:17am, his phone vibrated and altered something permanent between us. It did not ring. It did not flash dramatically. It trembled softly against the wooden bedside table, a restrained pulse in the dark. The sound would have gone unnoticed by a woman who was fully secure. I was not fully secure. He was asleep beside me, his arm…