AGAINST MY WILL

However, almost immediately after he moved in, things began to change.

Damion was quite controlling and wanted to be with me at all hours of the day.

I’d always been quite an independent woman, so it was suffocating me.

‘We don’t need to be joined at the hip,’ I tried to tell him.

‘I just love spending time with you,’ he’d smile.

Maybe he was trying to be flattering and a good boyfriend, but I wanted time to myself.

Even just a couple of hours.

‘I’m off to see my friends,’ I explained as I headed for the front door.

‘I’ll join you,’ he insisted, grabbing his coat.

It was exhausting and my friends were starting to become concerned, too.

‘It’s getting a bit weird now,’ they told me. ‘He never lets you see us on your own.’

I wanted Damion to understand that although