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honour and pride it would have been. He was none of those things. He was a<br />

child trapped in an adult’s body. He was anti-social, had major mental health<br />

problems and posed a deadly risk to my unborn child.<br />

I waited for him to leave but he didn’t.<br />

“Is he fucking off or what?” I asked Elly.<br />

“He is too drunk. He will go in the morning.” She answered.<br />

I was glad that I had put the locks on each door and went around and made sure<br />

any steal-able items were moved into our bedroom. We watched TV and went<br />

to sleep. It had been a stressful day and once the adrenaline had worn off I just<br />

collapsed into slumber.<br />

At about 3 am I was back up as I heard him trying all the doors. <strong>The</strong>n he<br />

stomped back upstairs. I woke Elly up.<br />

“He is trying to nick our stuff.” I said and she was still half asleep.<br />

She muttered something and ignoring the situation returned to her dreams. I still<br />

had the knife so I unlocked the door and switched on the hallway light. As I did<br />

he lunged at me knocking the knife to the floor.<br />

He had been waiting in the shadows like a coward. I was awoken and it was<br />

fight time, me in my briefs against him all padded up in his boots and thick coat.<br />

If that’s what he needed so be it. I had a lot of anger to work out. I was ready to

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