After leaving the bar, Melody Thorne walked over to Jared Quinn's car and kicked the front of it a few times.
"What's with the tantrum?" Jared Quinn grabbed her arm.
Melody Thorne turned her head and started hitting the man's chest in a fit of anger, clearly upset, both furious and deeply aggrieved, and she shouted at Jared Quinn, "How could you all be so selfish? Just because you want a child, you find a woman to have one. What's the point of secretly having one done? Did you ever consider how that girl feels?
Back then, she was only sixteen and had never been with a man. How could you let someone extract something from inside her?
Jared Quinn stood in place, looking down at her, letting her punches fall as he seriously said, "Because back then, you weren't there."
If she had been there four years ago, he wouldn't have tacitly allowed Leon Rivers to do such a thing.
"What do you mean by 'I wasn't there'? Back then, it was her, and it felt worse than being violated.
