"You're awake? God, I thought you were a goner. You looked like you'd crawled out of a murder scene."
This Black woman, Rabbie, was a truck driver who hauled lumber. She was the one who saved me. She'd also covered my medical expenses for the past few days.
I'd been unconscious in this hospital bed for three days; today was the fourth.
I'd borrowed Rabbie's phone to contact Sophia and ask her to transfer some money to cover the hospital bills.
Over the phone, Sophia gave me the terrible news. Because I'd left to search for Mia, I'd missed Anthony's trial and couldn't testify. Anthony had hired a prominent lawyer, a silver-tongued devil who'd successfully swayed the judge and won the case.
He'd only been sentenced to three months.
"What? But he... he..."
With Rabbie, a stranger, pres
