Chapter 245

JULIA

The first thing I saw when I woke up in what appeared to be a hospital bed was a nurse making notes in a chart.

"Hello, where am I?"

"Clovis Community Medical Center, Mrs. Rivers. How are you feeling?"

"Like a truck ran over me."

"What's the last thing you remember?"

What was the last thing? My memory seemed foggy, clouded. A fist. A face over mine, Jack. A cock penetrating me. Then Lisa on the floor, her legs splayed, a man fucking her. Jack again. Working on the bed. The doorbell.

"The doorbell rang. Lisa went to see who it was. She didn't come back. I went upstairs to check on the delay. Her ex-husband was fucking her. I called 911 from my watch. I went into the kitchen for a knife. Her nose was bloody. I stabbed in the ass with a meat fork, threatened him with the knife. Told him to leave. He knocked the knife out of my hand and hit me. I know he started to rape me, then I went