Time to Go

Challenge 26: Story must include a horse, a prize and a happy ending.
 
Time to Go

She returned home that night to, “You’re late again, you bitch!”
As usual.
Gathering her things, she strode toward the door. Brutal arms grabbed her. An elbow in the thigh – Charlie horses weren’t debilitating, but they hurt – he loosened his grip, and she wrenched herself away with her prize: freedom.