Lost You: Prologue

"Arianna, table 20 is yours, girl. Will you take their orders now?" said Sandy, who was also a server at the bar where eighteen-year-old Arianna Willis worked.

Arianna briefly glanced at the table and felt a little apprehensive about taking the orders of a group of eight men sitting around it. It was her second day at this job as a server at the Fuel Bar in Las Vegas.

Her father, Brad Willis, was an alcoholic and had written off major shares of his real estate firm to a friend of his in his drunken stupor, thirteen years ago. She was too young to know the man who betrayed her father later and finally took over his entire business. Ever since, her father took to the bottle and resorted to violence upon her mom, Cecilia Willis, for money. Then came the fateful day, two years ago, when her mom succumbed to her death after a fatal road accident while returning from work. After her mom's death, all hell broke loose as her father's wrath fell over her. She was too young to go