His secret

It's not easy to carry around a secret, especially when it's not yours to tell. If it had been mine and I'd have let it slip, that would've been my own problem to solve, my own mess to clean up, my own fault.
It was my fault but the mess that I had subsequently created was not mine to clean up and Andrew had been so furious, I'd had to flee. To give myself some credit, I had managed to keep the secret under lock and key for many years, I had put myself under immense duress and avoided countless social situations all in the name of guarding his wrongdoing. I felt powerless.
When he first told me what he had done, I'd been mortified and my initial instinct had been to run as far from him as was humanly possible, contact the police, perhaps. But my charming new fiance had quickly shown me the monster he truly was and I was terrified into submission. He knew that he had me exactly where he needed me and I was now merely an object under his control.
As the impending wedding grew ever closer, my love for him grew ever weaker. I couldn't back out, my father had thrown his life's savings into the weddings and I just couldn't let him down.
The day of my marriage came and went and soon Andrew began to talk about having a family. I couldn't have a child with this man, not knowing what he was capable of, they would never be safe. I never thought I'd be so happy to receive the news that I couldn't conceive. If this nightmare ever ended and I met someone new, I would adopt. That was far more of a preferable option than putting a child into the care of Andrew.
Now, I had to ensure that he would never find me, never be able to contact me or seduce me into standing by him through the endless trials that were to come. I couldn't, I wouldn't. The image of his sister's face when she came to realise that it was her own brother who had kidnapped and murdered her child, will haunt me forever. And I am an accessory to that.


This is a preliminary outline for the first chapter of a full story I am going to write.

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