part 7...
Danny rose from his chair and sat on her hospital bed and gathered her in his arms, holding on to her to calm her racing heart.
"Linds, you did nothing, nothing wrong," Danny said calmly"He's the one who was in the wrong, not you."
Lindsay fidgited with her hands and started to mess with the I.V in her hand, she started to pull the needle out when Danny stopped her in mid-action.
"Lindsay, don't!", Danny exclaimed, "You"ll hurt yourself even more."
"How can I catch this guy with me sitting in this hospital bed." Lindsay said, tears welling up again in her eyes.
Danny held her even closer and whispered in her ear: "He'll pay. I'll personally catch this guy and make him pay for what he did to you."
"Sweetheart, I need to know what happened to you, do you remember?" Danny said softly to her, making sure to not upset her.
"Can I have some water first?" Lindsay said, her throat parched. "Yes, I remember what happened?"
"Just go slowly if you need to," Danny said, " I have all the time in the world. Take your time."
Lindsay sat up and started to speak:
"When I moved to New York, I became friends with my neighbor, Elizabeth Washington. She was single, I was single and we became best friends. We went out and had fun. She had told me in the past that she was a "matchmaker" of sorts, and she had set up some of her friends and as the result of that, some of these pairings had been very successful."
"I had always told her no, that I didn't want to be set up, I wasn't into that. I wanted to meet people on my own, not have a third-party interfere."
"It had gotten to the point that I just told her yes so she would drop the subject. I agreed, and she set me up with a man named Anthony Garrett, a corporate tax attorney."
"That meeting took place 3 days ago and last night was the blind date. He knocked on my door and I slowly opened it."
Lindsay stopped talking and her eyes had taken on the look of a deer caught in the headlights.
"And that's when he grabbed me by the throat and told me I was going to pay dearly."
And that was the last thing Lindsay said before she blacked out.
to be continued...