Leave him,” her friend Roberta told her over the phone. “You stay, he thinks he can get away with it.”“It ain’t that simple,” Desiree said. She glanced toward her baby’s room, touching her swollen lip. She suddenly imagined Stella’s face, her own but unbruised.“Why?” Roberta said. “You love him? And he loves you so much, he knocked your head off your shoulders?”“It wasn’t that bad,” she said.“And you aim to stick around until it is?
-Brit Bennett
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