After her next session with the Emine, who insisted on being called Karen, JV felt better. She was steadier than after their first talk and she realized she should have talked to someone a long time ago, but who? She still couldn’t tell her family, she didn"t know if she would ever be able to. Until Rebecca, she hadn"t had friends she could talk to. There was no one she was close enough to share secrets with, even little secrets, much less her secret horror.
Karen had said when she met with her on Friday that it was okay that she didn’t want to talk about it, but treating her attack like a secret was only letting it hurt her more. She said it would help to tell someone she was close to. Someone other than Steve. JV wasn"t so sure.
Saturday afternoon, she was in Rebecca"s living room with
