ZETAS TILL WE DIE
Author: Amber and Danielle
Brown
ISBN: 9781525836718
Publication Date: September
10, 2024
Publisher: Graydon House
Book Summary:
“The Browns deliver their trademark mix of steamy sex and social
commentary in an easy-to-binge package. This is bound to please fans of Shonda
Rhimes.” —Publishers Weekly on Perfect Little Lives
SISTERS…FOR LIFE.
It’s been ten years since Priscilla and her Zeta Phi Zeta sorority
sisters graduated college. Ten years since they were all in the same room
together. Ten years since one of them died. And now Lupe’s killer has been
released from prison on a technicality, days before their ten-year reunion.
Priscilla decides that the party must go on; Lupe would have wanted it
to. And besides, an epic reunion bash might be the perfect distraction. Back
together, the Zetas party like it’s 2012, and it’s wild, just the way it used
to be. Maybe too wild. At least everyone makes it out alive this time…or so
they think.
When one of them doesn’t return home after the party, Priscilla begins
to realize that there might be more to Lupe’s murder and that someone is out
for blood. With the murderer in their midst circling closer and closer, the
Zetas are forced to confront what really happened the night Lupe died—and the
secrets each of them swore to keep.
Excerpted from ZETAS TILL WE DIE by Amber Brown and
Danielle Brown, Copyright © 2024 by Amber Brown and Danielle Brown. Published
by arrangement with HTP Books, a Division of HarperCollins.
TRANSCRIPT OF JURY TRIAL—DAY 16
Conducted on May 20, 2015
Case: California v. Wolfe
DEFENSE ATTORNEY: Can you please remind the jury what you
saw the night of May 7, 2012, as you returned home?
PRISCILLA: I was just getting home. Walking into the house
and I saw him. Travis. His shirt was covered in her blood. Like soaked all the
way through. At first I couldn’t tell what it was. It was dark. But when he got
closer, I could tell it was blood. There was some on the tops of his pants too.
He didn’t run or anything when he saw me. He just stared at me and then took
off. I didn’t see him after that. I ran in to see what happened, where the
blood was… Sorry. This is my first time seeing him again…after… Can I have some
water, please?
DEFENSE ATTORNEY: And what did you see when you entered the
house?
PRISCILLA: I remember…blood. Just a lot of blood. That’s all
I could see at first. Just so much blood. I froze… I just…couldn’t believe it
was Lupé…lying there like that. She wasn’t moving, her neck was… The way it was
twisted, I could barely look. My mind was racing so fast. Everything just
slowed down. I was there but not there.
DEFENSE ATTORNEY: Understandable. Now, is it fair to say you
may be misremembering some details due to your state of shock?
PRISCILLA: No. Not at all. I know what I saw. He came from
inside the house covered in Lupé’s blood. I saw what I saw.
DEFENSE ATTORNEY: Tell me what else you saw as you walked
into the house. Was anyone else present?
PRISCILLA: Dionne and Alexis first. They were at the bottom
of the stairs, kneeling down at Lupé’s side, trying to get her to breathe, to
wake up, something. Zoë and Chanel were also there. Somewhere. Someone was on
the phone with the police. I think it was her.
DEFENSE ATTORNEY: Were they also covered in blood?
PRISCILLA: They took turns trying to give her CPR. They all
had touched her by the time I got there.
DEFENSE ATTORNEY: And you never saw Mr. Wolfe physically
harm Lupé that night, correct?
PRISCILLA: No, but he was the only one who just left when I
showed up. Everyone else tried to save her. Tried to do something. Why would
he run away if he didn’t do it?
DEFENSE ATTORNEY: Based on the little you actually saw, it
could have been anyone else who was present when you arrived who pushed her
down the stairs. Is that fair to say?
PRISCILLA: No one else had any reason to kill Lupé.
DEFENSE ATTORNEY: What makes you so certain? Had you ever
witnessed Mr. Wolfe threaten Lupé before?
PRISCILLA: No. But Travis—sorry, Mr. Wolfe—was constantly
stalking her. I was worried for her. This guy always seemed to be around her
and none of us knew anything about him or why he was so obsessed.
DEFENSE ATTORNEY: And when you say none of “us,” who exactly
are you referring to?
PRISCILLA: My sorority sisters. Her best friends. Me,
Chanel, Zoë, Alexis, Dionne and Val.
DEFENSE ATTORNEY: That night, were the doors locked?
PRISCILLA: We always lock the doors after eleven.
DEFENSE ATTORNEY: So there was no way Travis could have
entered the premises on his own? If the doors were locked?
PRISCILLA: We figured he broke in through her window. He was
always staring up at her room like he was trying to figure out a way to get
into it.
DEFENSE ATTORNEY: And if he was there that night—
PRISCILLA: He was there.
DEFENSE ATTORNEY: If he was there that night, someone could
have let him in, right? That is possible, correct?
PRISCILLA: Lupé would have never let him in. None of us
would have. We were all worried for her.
DEFENSE ATTORNEY: Lupé’s bedroom was on the second floor,
was it not?
PRISCILLA: Yes, but—
DEFENSE ATTORNEY: It would have been nearly impossible for
him to scale the building and break in through the window without anyone
hearing or seeing anything, right?
PRISCILLA: I…
DEFENSE ATTORNEY: No further questions, Your Honor.
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