I hesitated when my best friend Eve urged me to travel to North Carolina to see her and my father. Only a week away from my wedding to Robbie, our tumultuous relationship was already tense. I knew it was the wrong moment to return, but I couldn't pass up the chance to see my closest buddy in order to process my own emotions and get away from Robbie's increasingly domineering actions. I never could have predicted how this brief vacation and a carefree night of freedom could have gone terribly wrong.