Chapter Seven
How Louis Van Tongeren Served His Lady
Antoinette Stivic had been getting compliments on the shape of her nose for the past few months, ever since her nose had healed from its reconstructive surgery. As she sat before the mirror above her vanity table, she found that her straight nose did indeed look nice.
Nevertheless, the sight of it still bothered her to some extent because it inevitably reminded her of why she no longer had her old, oddly turned-up but still rather pretty nose: it had been broken by her ex-girlfriend’s fist. The fight was sparked over finances when Antoinette reminded her lover, Bea O’Hair, of the money Antoinette had loaned Bea. Then Bea claimed that she had already paid Antoinette back and the verbal fight had escalated from a yelling match until Be
