After the breakfast dishes were cleared away, Danny led her by the hand and took her back to the couch that she slept on. He wanted to make her as comfortable as possible.
"Linds, is there anything else I can get for you." Danny said, smiling down at her.
"Can you go get the tape recorder that is in my desk drawer over near the front door? I want to make sure this guy goes to Hell for what he did to me and I want to make sure this is done right."
Making sure that the tape was working, Danny set the recorder on the coffee table in front of him, and pressed play.
After stating his name and title, Danny started to ask her some questions.
"Miss Monroe", can you tell me what happened to lead up to the events of the attack please?"
"I had been set up by my neighbor, Elizabeth Washington to go on a blind date and realizing she wouldn't let up on it, I agreed to go."
Danny's emotions took over and he got really quiet for a minute. He wasn't mad at Lindsay, he just kept thinking of what was done to her.
It's okay, she mouthed to him, I'll be alright.
I'm sorry, he mouthed back to her, I'll take care of you.
Danny had to maintain his composure or he was going to lose it, and he didn't want to lose it in front of her.
He had to be strong for her.
"I agreed to go out on the blind date with the guy she set me up with, Anthony Garrett. I got ready and he rang the doorbell. I remember letting him in my apartment, and the next thing I knew he grabbed for me."
Danny had to turn away for a minute so he could get his composure back again.
"Do you remember anything else?"
"I had a hard time remembering the other day, but I was in such a shock, but I can remember it all now."
"I remember him throwing me down on the ground, his fists hitting me so hard, that my skin split open. His fists started to hit the side of my face, and my head. He...he..."
Reaching towards the coffee table, Danny got the tape recorder, when her small hand stopped him.
"Please don't, I have to do this please?" Lindsay said, pleading and begging.
Danny looked back at her with those blue eyes and he knew she was strong enough to speak.
"He started to rip my panties and the force of him pushing himself in me, ripped my insides apart. Will he was raping me, he told me that my time was coming and this is a payback for something that I did to his associate."
"Do you know who is associate is?"
"No, why would someone want to hurt me?"
He had enough information on the tape. He clicked it off and went over to the couch and held her in his arms and let her let it out again. The pain and torment began to stream down her face in a torrent of tears and he had to do something fast.
Or she would be lost.