Karani briefly closed her eyes and took a deep breath. I knew how hard this was for her. She didn’t like looking at people’s memories, especially painful ones like these, but she’d done it for Shoran without even thinking about it.
“I went to Shoran’s hospital room and looked at her memories. The things I’m going to tell you now are the things that happened to her. She was awake and alert for most of it. James is correct, by the time he got back to the house, Dave had already raped her once.
She was pressed down on the table and Dave took the letter opener from the table, and then he repeatedly raped her with it. Shoran had counted fourteen times that he stuck it inside her with force. She was bleeding profusely, and she passed out while he laughed.”
This time, Malachi had tears in his
