“Abby? Are you ok?” Julie asked.
Abby nodded. She hadn’t said anything since she got in the car. She kept going over every moment she had with Dave, wondering if she gave him the wrong impression. She couldn’t think of one.
“Please say something,” Julie pleaded.
“I…I don’t understand. What did I do?”
She couldn’t think of one.
“Please say something,” Julie pleaded.
“I…I don’t understand. What did I do?”
“You didn’t do anything. It was Dave. He can get like that.”
Abby was surprised. “Has this happened before?”
Julie nodded.
“To you?”
“I don’t want to talk about it.”
“Julie! What did he do?”
Julie’s knuckled grew white on the steering wheel.
“We had sex once.”
“Did he force you?” Abby asked quietly.
Julie shrugged in response.
“The guy is a monster. He can’t do this to people!” Abby yelled causing Julie to jump.
“Abby, you look like you might get a black eye. Do you want to go to the hospital?”
Abby thought about it. “No, I just want my husband.”
When they arrived, Abby had to show her ID so the guard would let them in. They parked in the lot outside the set.
“Abby, you made it,” Alexis said when she walked in. He blue eyes went wide. “Oh my God, what happened?”
“It’s a long story. This is Julie.”
Julie and Alexis exchanged hellos.
“When is Ian?” Abby asked.
“He’s in his trailer waiting for you. We just finished up,” she said trying not to look at Abby’s emerging black eye and failing miserably.
“I’m just going to find Ian,” Abby said and left the two girl.
Knocking on the door of his trailer, Abby entered. Ian was lying on his couch with his arm over his eyes.
“Hey,” Abby said quietly.
“Hey Beautiful, you made it,” he said. He moved his arm to look at her. His face grew red. “What is that?”
Abby shrugged and broke down crying. Ian got up and went over to her.
“I…he…”
“He who?” Ian roared. He would kill the person who hurt her.
Abby shook her head. “I don’t want to talk about it.”
“Abby…”
“Please Ian, just hold me ok?”
He wrapped her in his arms and she cried on his chest for what felt like hours.
“Please tell me who did this to you,” he demanded.
“My boss. I think he’s going to fire me because I didn’t…”
“What happened?”
Abby went through her night and what Dave had done to her. Ian was furious,
