Chapter 83

She nodded when Marconi asked her to calm down and explain what she meant. She tried to stay calm and make her words clearer.

When she was still dating Eli, that was long before she introduced him to her parents, she went to the club with her friends. The same friends that tried to set her up with drugs. Eli was also there. They had a lot to drink that night. She was so drunk that she did not know what was going on. Till a young man walked up to her—he tried to dance with her. He was forcing himself on her even when she didn’t want to dance. He was holding and pulling her close.

The drunk Antonia didn’t know how else to stop him. So she picked a bottle from the bar front and landed it on his head. The loud shatter attracted the attention of everyone in the bar. Her two friends were nowhere to be found. Eli rushed to her. The man was bleeding from his head profusely.

Eli told them not to worry, that they would get him to the hospital. He carried the body to his car