Free Rage Unleashed by Casheena Parker Page B

what’s wrong with you. I did think of you. You know I can’t take the smell of any kind of meat right now. I don’t know what you want from me. I’m doing everything you ask of me and all I ask of you is to have a little understanding about how I’m feeling. The doctor says—”
     
     
    Before she could continue he raised his fist and struck her across her face. “I’ve had enough of your excuses Suzan. I don’t need to understand anything other than you’re lazy and you’re using this pregnancy as an excuse to not do what I ask you to. Now you’re talking back to me instead of trying to fix the problem. My friends were right. You’re spoiled and I need to teach you a lesson. I’m not going to listen to your whining any longer. You’re going to start doing your part as a wife. And since you didn’t get the food right we’ll start with you pleasing me.”
     
     
    Out of nowhere he grabbed her and roughly bent her over the counter while snatching off her underwear.
     
     
    “Stop Steven! Stop you’ll hurt the baby,” she cried while trying to push him off of her.
     
     
    Again he struck her; this time in the side of her head, causing her to pass out from the impact. He picked her up placing her on the large island in the center of the kitchen and entered her. She awakened a while later while he was still thrusting into her roughly and began to cry. He stopped after he was done and pulled away from her showing the blood that was now seeping from her.
    “Oh my God, Steven! The baby! I could be losing the baby!” “You better hope for your sake you’re not. Look what I had to resort to doing because you couldn’t do as you were told. Hurry up and go wash this blood off of you so that you can go to the hospital.”
     
     
    She slid off the counter barely able to stand and walked to the shower. Lelone watched Officer McKinney change his clothes and call the ambulance. She watched as Suzan held her stomach protectively and cried about her baby as the EMT’s lifted her into the ambulance. She watched him get into his car as the ambulance pulled off. While watching him she began to get more enraged and slightly impatient. Tonight was going to be the night that all Suzan’s troubles would be over.
     
     
    She followed McKinney to Hillside Hospital and made her way to the labor and delivery floor. She snuck and put on some scrubs so she would be able to get close without him realizing that she wasn’t supposed to be there. When she walked to the waiting room she could heard the doctor asking him what happened that made her bleed and what happened to her face.  She used this opportunity to go in to talk to Suzan.
     
     
    “Hello Mrs. McKinney. I’m Clare. I’m going to assist you in changing into your gown okay. I know you’re in a lot of pain and this may be hard for you. Can you tell me what exactly happened today that brought you in?”
     
     
    The minute she touched Suzan she saw a flash of what happened. She also saw the many times before that he had put his hands on her. She pulled away remembering the conversation he had with Officer McFalley earlier and the fake expression that he gave as if he had never hit his wife.
     
     
    She looked at Suzan sympathetically and said, “We can’t help you if you don’t tell us what happened. If you keep letting him hit you, he will one day take it too far and kill you. We will do everything we can to help your baby, but you need to love you and your baby enough to protect him as well. If he does this while you’re carrying his child what do you think he will do when your baby is in your arms?”
     
     
    Suzan nodded  in  understanding  and  headed  into  the bathroom. Lelone used that as her moment to exit. She had gotten all that she needed from her and she would use what she knew to let the hospital know that Suzan needed protection. She took off the scrubs and went to the nurse assigned to Suzan’s room and told her that she was a friend