Toxic Love: The Savage Experience (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798860818231)

Have you ever been in love with someone so much that you start to lose yourself? The attraction was so strong and addictive that it was toxic. As women, we need to learn when enough is enough. When the red flags show you it's time to walk away from a toxic situation. They define a toxic relationship as one that makes you feel unsupported, misunderstood, demeaned, or attacked. In this urban tale, Sapphire aka Savage learns just how a toxic relationship can be nothing but turmoil. Savage and her child's father Xavier have been together on and off for 5 years. After two kids and years of lies and cheating, Savage thought things were going to change in their relationship. But it only got worse over time. Before she met Xavier, Savage went through physical and emotional abuse in previous relationships that left her broken. This added to her childhood trauma of being hurt by different men from the early age of 6 years old. Growing up in Detroit made her tough but also caused her heart to be cold. She experienced diverse types of toxic love that caused her hard exterior. With Xavier, he was so charming, handsome, and caring when they first met. Swept her off her feet with his charm. Early on, she ignored the same red flags that would be the ones that would hit her hard in the end.

He was a narcissist and he honestly believed it was his world. She caught him multiple times with different women, and he blamed her for his actions. Xavier was in the streets heavily, so he often was away from the house. His street life began to change who he was as a man. As he got deeper into the game, the relationship started to be increasingly toxic between the two. As a successful Insurance agent was right where she wanted it to be. But Sapphire started to feel lost and neglected in the relationship. She longed for romance, affection, and love. She loved Xavier and often prayed for him to change. After finding out he cheated with a close family friend, she started to step outside the relationship.

This is when she met Darrius through a client of hers. Darrius fed her soul mentally and her body sexually. Everything she wanted from Xavier he did. Savage wasn't the type to cheat during a relationship but after years of being done wrong, she felt justified. She went deep into the situation with Darrius. Falling in lust with Darrius may change her life. When Savage got pregnant, she ended the relationship with Darrius to try and save her marriage. They say giving in to temptation can be dangerous. Savage's life began to spiral out of control when a random female popped up pregnant by Xavier at the same time as her pregnancy. Things turn for the worse when a home invasion turns Savage and Xavier's life upset down.
Revenge was on her mind as she tried to cope with everything that happened. Feeling like she was alone she decided to leave Xavier. The emotions from blaming him began to be too much to handle. Losing herself she became her alter ego, Savage. Savage was emotionally unavailable, unattached, and uncaring about a lot of things.

She tried to entertain Darrius to help her get through her pain. Her feelings were involved with two men at the same time. When the men in her life learned of her double life started an ongoing war of turmoil. Savage was stuck in the middle of this war. She was in a lifestyle that had her life in turmoil, she was headed down the road of destruction. Will Savage learn the hard way?

Read on to find out what happened to Savage in this urban fiction filled with love, hurt, sex, drugs, and violence. Will she make it out alive?

Author: Desire Love
ISBN-13: 9798860818231
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 09/08/2023
Pages: 150
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.32d