“Maria….this really has to stop.” I spoke firmly pursing my lips barely trying to contain my anger as I watched Maria Rosa cry. That asshole she was dating, Juan Santiago, I had never liked him and he had never liked me either. I don’t even know why she got together with him in the first place but Maria Rosa always found a way to keep going back to him. After Pedro’s father left her while she was pregnant, she was a mess and even though I tried to be with her, Maria Rosa always found herself with the worse men like Juan.
She blowed her nose into a tissue, her mascara running over, her eye reddening already from where he had punched her. There were a few other bruises around her body from where he had beaten her up and we were currently patching up in a small storage room in the hospita
