I shivered as I sat in the dark room, waiting for my husband to return. I wondered what he had planned for me. After all, we did get into a big argument today. Oh god, the look on his face…and his words to me, I thought and gulped. It was so silent in the bedroom. It was as if I could hear almost every sound: the quick beating of my heart, the faint sound of a mouse scuttling across the floor, even the sound of an owl hoo...