I had caught them together in our bed and Eddie had wiped the floor with me. All of the time he was beating me to a pulp, Kim kept saying, "Stop Eddie...! He's not a quarter of a man you are. Get over here and fuck me." Those two sentences that she said over and over were like a thousand knives in my heart.She had run off with Eddie and left our young daughter and me alone. We never heard from her until ... that day. The day she rang the door bell and tried to reenter our lives. She looked (and. You can see part of it reflected in “The Freya Cycle” I was fundamentally changing as a person and I didn’t like it. I fought it because I was scared of becoming something unknown. I’m a stubborn bastard. I fought until I went borderline insane in the clinical sense of the word. Now, It’s happening again.It’s funny when you look at the past you notice things you’ve never seen before. I realized this week that I had never spent the night at my father’s mother’s home or at any member of his side. I threw my hands into the air and went to a neutral corner. The ref counted to ten and declared the fight over. I had won by a knockout in the third round. Lisa was at ringside by then, standing and cheering. I stood in the center of the ring as the referee raised my hand in victory. Karen ran up to me and gave me a big hug and a kiss. I looked over at Lisa and she smiled, shrugged her shoulders and walked over to the join us as Karen and I left the ring. I gave her a big kiss and congratulated. Angela and Candy were in agreement as he had intimidated them as well and very little intimidates my friendly hellions. I was about to order our meal when I felt a tap on my shoulder. I looked up to see the girl I had just rescued from the lout. She was the most incredible woman I’ve ever seen. Writers don’t believe in love at first sight. We author stories about such events, but we’re cynical at heart. I can state categorically that I looked at this young woman and could not speak. I had.