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know of, so please promise me now that you won’t let on about this, okay?”
     
    “You know me, I won’t tell anyone.”
     
    “Nate!”
     
    “Okay, okay. I promise. Now will you tell me what you know?”
     
    Breathing slowly, she started, “Last year when she worked for some design company she met a group of guys. She started to hang out with two of them, Lucas and James, more and more. All three of them decided to get a place together closer to work. About six months after that she started to date Lucas. I’d never seen her so happy in her life, but there was something off about him that I couldn’t put my finger on.
     
    “Every time I’d go over and see her, she was never there. Only James, and he seemed to be an all right bloke. When she didn’t return any of my phone calls or visits, I really started to get worried, so I rang Craig, and he hadn’t heard from her either. He had gone to her house several times, too, but never saw her.”
     
    She took a sip of her drink and went on, “About a month later, I camped outside of her house to catch her. That night I had seen her run out of her house crying. She jumped into her car and drove off, so I followed her. I followed her over an hour before she finally arrived at some random motel in the area. I watched her get out and head into the motel office to get a room. I gave it about a half hour then I finally decided to head to the room I had seen her go into. It took her forever to answer it. But once she saw that it was me at the door, she let me in.” Signing to herself she was hesitant on continuing knowing the next part was going to be hard. She looked at Nate with a sad look on her face but she continued. “I have never seen her in the state she was in; she had lost a lot of weight, she had bruises all over her arms, a black eye, split lip, and blood on her shirt.”
     
    Nate jumped out of his chair. “What the fuck?”
     
    She held up her hand, “Let me finish.”
     
    He sat back down, breathing hard. “Fine.” he said in a growl like tone.
     
    “So I asked her what the hell happened. Now Nate, what I’m about to tell you, you can’t get any more ballistic on me or I will stop; I’m just telling you all she told me.”
     
    Nate nodded; he couldn’t say anything at that point.
     
    “I asked how she got all her injuries. She said she was in a fight at a bar she went to with a couple of her friends. We knew each other very well so I didn’t believe she was in a fight. where she went out with a couple of their mates. I didn’t believe her and we know each other too well. She told me that Lucas started to get really possessive of her; she couldn’t go out anywhere by herself, he had to go with her every time. He came home drunk one night and accused her of sleeping with one of his friends, which she didn’t – she’s not like that. So he beat the shit out of her. He gave her those injuries. I asked what else he did, but she didn’t tell me any more than that, that’s all I know.”
     
    Not looking at Nate, she got up walked over to the sink and just stared out the kitchen window. Holding back the tears, she couldn’t believe she just broken her promise she had made with Sky and told Nate all she knew about Sky’s past. After taking a deep breath she continued. “I asked her several times after that for her to tell me the rest, but she hasn’t. That is why she is scared, Nate. Lucas really did a number on her. She gets claustrophobic if people are crowding her and she starts to panic. She was really in love with that guy, though I don’t know why.” She looked over at him sitting at the table. He was breathing really hard and she knew he wanted to kill something, his fists balled up on the table. God, he was sexy like that, but she couldn’t think of him like that, he was like a big brother to her.
     
    “Look at you and Dom, you’re giants. No wonder she is scared shitless.” She tried to make him laugh.
     
    “I