She.. already thought for a while I was taking things too far. [ Even his words come slowly. Like they're either carefully chosen, or Daniel just has trouble thinking of what he should say here in the first place.
Or-- maybe both. ]
But the man who gave me those injuries, the one I was trying to stop.. She didn't see what I saw. She didn't believe that he really was-- [ He stops, swallows. ] That he was manipulative. That he was an abuser. That he was hurting kids.
[ Daniel doesn't look at Kim as he speaks, like this is the only way he can get these words out in the first place. He feels like he might lose all courage the moment he actually looks at the other man. ]
He kept goading me at a charity auction my wife was playing an important role at, lying to me and manipulating me into attacking him. And I-- I lost my cool, and I did exactly that. I hardly touched him, but he pretended to fall and get really hurt because of it. Everyone believed him, including my wife.
[ He sucks in a deep breath. ]
So she got mad at me. Took the kids, and.. left to the other side of the country to stay with her mother. Then that man cornered me when I was alone, and.. well, you saw how that ended. He practically left me there for dead. [ Kim did bring up the injuries just now, after all. ] I figure no one even knows what happened to me, or maybe even that I disappeared to this city in the first place.
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She.. already thought for a while I was taking things too far. [ Even his words come slowly. Like they're either carefully chosen, or Daniel just has trouble thinking of what he should say here in the first place.
Or-- maybe both. ]
But the man who gave me those injuries, the one I was trying to stop.. She didn't see what I saw. She didn't believe that he really was-- [ He stops, swallows. ] That he was manipulative. That he was an abuser. That he was hurting kids.
[ Daniel doesn't look at Kim as he speaks, like this is the only way he can get these words out in the first place. He feels like he might lose all courage the moment he actually looks at the other man. ]
He kept goading me at a charity auction my wife was playing an important role at, lying to me and manipulating me into attacking him. And I-- I lost my cool, and I did exactly that. I hardly touched him, but he pretended to fall and get really hurt because of it. Everyone believed him, including my wife.
[ He sucks in a deep breath. ]
So she got mad at me. Took the kids, and.. left to the other side of the country to stay with her mother. Then that man cornered me when I was alone, and.. well, you saw how that ended. He practically left me there for dead. [ Kim did bring up the injuries just now, after all. ] I figure no one even knows what happened to me, or maybe even that I disappeared to this city in the first place.