I was still a virgin at 22, and my mother always warned me, “Never be left alone with your grandmother’s husband.” I thought that he just didn’t like Wayne… until the night Grandma left town, Wayne came back drunk, walked into my room, locked the door and said, “Tonight you’re mine.”

I never allowed Jason to come back into my life.

Two years later I met Daniel.

He was the first man who never made me feel like I had to justify my limits.

When we finally got married, Wayne and Grandma were sitting together in the front row.

After the ceremony, Wayne approached me.

“Promise me one thing.

What?

He smiled.

Never tell your future children what I told you that night.

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I laughed.

Too late. It’s already a family legend.

He also laughs.

And sometimes I still think about those scary seconds in my room.

The seconds I was convinced that all of my mother’s warnings finally made sense.

But the truth was completely different.

Wayne hadn’t entered my room because he wanted to take something from me.

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I had come in because I was trying to make sure no one else did.