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Chapter Four
Zulika took her friend to the police, then accompanied her to the hospital for the r**e kit. She saw the burgeoning bruise on Norah’s face and her stomach roiled with fury. When she was sure that Norah was asleep, back safe in Zulika’s apartment, she called her step-brother. He was still asleep.
“Motherfucker,” she hissed down the telephone at him. Lucian was awake then.
“Zul, what the hell is going on?”
In the background, she could hear sirens and she smiled grimly. “Hear those blues and twos, cocksucker? They’re coming for you. I saw what you did to her. I saw the bruises on her face. You f*****g r***d Norah.”
“What the f**k? r**e? I had s*x with my girlfriend, Zulika, not that it’s any of your business …and where the hell is Norah? Norah!”
She heard him call out fo
