"Every little girl’s favorite part of the story ends the same, “and they lived happily ever after!” The Princess marries the Prince, the Frog turns into a Handsome Prince, Dorothy makes it home, but no one tells us how our real- life situations, choices, and decisions are all indicative of reaching that, “Happily ever after place.” There comes a time when a young woman must go through a lot of hurt, pain, truths, and triumphs to overcome unexplainable obsessions to reach that point. "
Fendi Carter never truly got to that happily ever after point. At eight years old, she suffered a lot of hurt, pain, and sexual abuse in the hands of her mother husband, Carter. Carter took Fendi's eight year old body through more than it should. A mother who was blinded by love and looking for more in all of the wrong places. She failed to do the one thing a mother should always do and that was to protect her child. Her own flesh in blood. Her first born and only daughter. A mere reflection of herself.
At the tender age of Sixteen, Fendi just like her mother, she substituted the pain with love from a man. Looking for love in all the wrong places after being molested by someone she once considered family. When she met Reggie she feels like she's finally found her happily ever after place. Three years she gave him a beautiful baby girl and than their relationship took a turn for the worst and spiraled out of control.
When the kisses and the extravagant gifts turn to bloody lips and black eye’s; when the house wife life she chose turns out to be something she can’t handle and the abuse becomes unbearable and the only way out of her relationship is in a coffin. How long will she be able to hide her black eyes from her loved ones and will her faults be forever a secret? Will she continue to be treated this way? Why would a woman stay in a relationship with a guy who puts her down, hems her in, and perhaps even physically abuses her? Why oh why would a woman allow herself to be emotionally blackmailed by her boyfriend’s threats that he will kill himself or her or both if she even talks about leaving a relationship that is going nowhere?