Slowly Burning

SCOTT POV

"It's your fault we ended up like this, Crystal! Don't you dare put this on me!" I screamed back at her. She always puts our childlessness on me, it's not my fault she's not enough of a woman. I regret the day I ever met her, I swear to the goddess.

Suddenly I hear her scream like a primal animal, and before I can even react something hard hits the back of my head. The world shakes beneath me for a second; my vision is blurry and I can feel a warm liquid run down the back of my neck. My feet can't carry me anymore, all of a sudden I feel too heavy for myself. Looking up, I see a heaving, disheveled Crystal be with an animalistic expression on her face. She had hit me with the porcelain bottle decoration in her hand. I went too far this time, I didn't mean to call her a useless hag, it just happened. She just has a way of aggravating me all the goddamn time, reminding me of how we nearly killed Aria and my unborn child. If only I could turn back the hands of time and make my