When he came in, mad with drink, and made me go into the room with him, Ameerah saw him.
She always listened outside.

Before we left The Kennel Farm, the day he tortured and taunted me until I lost my head and shrieked out to him that I had told you what I knew, and had helped you to go away, he struck me again and again.

Ameerah heard that.

He did it several times afterwards, and she always knew.

She always intended to end it in some way.