* This story was updated to reflect that PennLive's interview with Miccarelli was cancelled.

The night remains freshly and painfully etched in her mind.

State Rep. Nick Miccarelli came to her house on Nov. 6, 2014, to collect on a friendly wager on a football game that he proposed by text -- that she give him a lap dance and back rub if her team lost. She said he was drunk and told her he was "all horned up.'' She told him their relationship was over and asked him to leave.

"Something about his demeanor made me uncomfortable," she said. "I didn't know what it was at the time but just something turned me off."

He followed her upstairs, forcibly removed her nightgown and raped her, she alleged in interviews with the Dauphin County district attorney's office and state House investigators.

Miccarelli has denied allegations that he sexually assaulted women.

But the 30-year-old Harrisburg political consultant has since been trying to heal from the physical and emotional scars she says the five-term Delaware County Republican lawmaker inflicted on her that night.

In her first in-depth interview since allegations against Miccarelli became public on Feb. 28, the consultant shared intimate details about her relationship with Miccarelli, including how it ended that night in her Harrisburg home. PennLive does not identify alleged victims of sexual assault and the woman spoke on the condition she would not be named in our article.

She is not alone in her allegations of abuse against Miccarelli. State Rep. Tarah Toohil went public with her claims as well. Toohil, who had also dated Miccarelli, obtained a temporary protection from abuse order against him, claiming in court documents he pulled a gun on her and threatened to kill them both back in 2012.

In a statement released Saturday by her lawyers, Toohil of Luzerne County said she was in a consensual relationship with her fellow Republican six years ago "but there were terrible moments that were non-consensual."

Miccarelli's spokesman, Frank Keel, calls the protection from abuse order part of a "well-orchestrated smear campaign." He said Miccarelli, an Iraq war veteran who has served in the military for 18 years, looks forward to telling his side of the story at a Thursday hearing regarding that PFA.

Instead of responding to a series of questions about the allegations against Miccarelli, Keel promised a sitdown interview with Miccarelli and his attorneys. He agreed to allow Miccarelli's past denials of the accusations and proclamations of innocence to stand for the purposes of this story.

Miccarelli, through his spokesman, cancelled the interview on Tuesday.

Miccarelli released a statement on Feb. 28, denying the accusations that are the subject of a joint complaint the women filed privately with the House of Representatives on Feb. 8 and are now the focus of a criminal investigation by the Dauphin County District Attorney's office:

"I have had consensual relationships with these women before being married (Feb. 17). At no time was I violent or threatening to any woman I dated nor have I drugged any person. After being called by a reporter, I called the House Legal Counsel and asked that a thorough, speedy and open investigation into any allegations be completed."

Keel said it was "sickening" that Miccarelli, who is two years away from earning his military pension, "is now being deprived of his rights to defend himself and could lose everything based on nothing more than baseless allegations." Keel previously questioned the timing of the women's complaints that became public less than two weeks after Miccarelli's marriage.

The consultant disputes the charge that her story is part of any smear campaign.

"A lot of his attacks on me have focused on the timing of his marriage and I'm willing to provide text [messages] here today to show that throughout the course of his courtship, if you want to call it that, of his wife, he was still pursuing me to no avail because I'd become non-responsive at that time," she said.

As the House of Representatives returned to Harrisburg on Monday for the start of the spring legislative session, Miccarelli was a no show at the Capitol. The restraining order bars him from the building since it is Toohil's workplace. Toohil attended the legislative session on Monday.

All eight House GOP leaders have called on him to resign. House Majority Leader Dave Reed, R-Indiana County, said,"We certainly believe it's in everybody's best interest for Representative Miccarelli to resign ... hopefully he will heed that call."

Gov. Tom Wolf has also called on Miccarelli to step down as have some House Democrats. Miccarelli filed his paperwork last week to get his name on the May primary ballot to seek a sixth term of office.

There's little doubt this latest chapter of the #MeToo movement to hit the state Capitol will overshadow legislative discussions inside its walls. The movement already has put two lawmakers on the hot seat and led to the state fire commissioner's sudden resignation.

The beginning of a secret relationship

The consultant started her fund-raising business that works solely with Republican political candidates and some nonprofits. She said she met Miccarelli in 2012 when she was dating one of his friends.

Over the course of the next year, their paths crossed and a consensual relationship began. At his request, she said, they kept the relationship private. She later learned he was living with another woman in his Delaware County home at the time, she said.

Her co-worker recalled how the secrecy bothered the consultant but didn't cause her to break it off.

"It was a relationship where she was really emotionally invested and you couldn't really tell with him," said the coworker, who asked not to be named because identifying her would reveal the consultant's name. "It was very frustrating to her not knowing his commitment to the relationship."

Miccarelli would drop in and out of her life, sharing sporadic text exchanges that strung her friend along for awhile, stop and then start again, the coworker said.

Over the 2013 winter holidays, Miccarelli took a trip to Taiwan with friends. While there, he asked the consultant to send photos of herself. She did. But he pressured her to send more intimate photos, she said.

That led to a decision "which I'm not proud of. It was a very bad time in my life and I did and immediately knew it was a mistake," she said.

In August 2014, Miccarelli came to her house with a shopping bag. He said he was going to mix up some special drinks -- a raspberry and mint mojito concoction, she recalled. He told her to go upstairs where he brought the drinks and the two began to play a word association drinking game.

She said she believes he slipped a drug in the drink.

"We went back and forth probably four or five times. It was my turn and my mind went blank," she said. "I couldn't form words and I looked at him and I said I feel strange and my mind is blank like I don't feel that makes any sense. He didn't say anything. He just stared at me and I passed out."

The woman's attorneys said, in the complaint filed with House leadership and county investigators, that the woman believes Miccarelli had sex with her while she was unconscious. She awoke to her makeup smeared all over her face and on her white pillowcase. He was gone by the time she awoke the next morning. Her texts to him about the night went unanswered for at least two weeks, she said.

"It was a situation that never made sense," she said. "When I finally did get in contact with him in a phone conversation, all he would say about the incident is do you remember what happened? Don't you remember what happened? But he wouldn't tell me what happened. He was just very focused on confirming that I didn't know."

Their relationship takes a turn

After that night, their relationship faded and there was a marked difference in their communications, she said.

On Nov. 6, 2014, he reached out to her to make a bet on a football game. According to a transcript of a compilation of texts Miccarelli provided to the Delaware County Times it was a flirtatious exchange.

He bet a Saturday night dinner in Philadelphia, which the consultant said would have been only the second time that the two went out in public together. He said she should give him a lap dance and a back rub if she lost. He won the bet and, without warning, came to her home later that night, she said.

She said she let him in but told him it was over between them and asked him to leave.

"Something about his demeanor made me uncomfortable," the consultant said. "I didn't know what it was at the time but just something turned me off."

"He said, "You can't get me all horned up and expect me to just leave'," she said. She told him to go.

He left agitated, she said, but returned less than five minutes later saying he was drunk and didn't want to risk getting arrested for driving under the influence. She said she let him in, told him to sit on the couch, get a drink of water and leave when he sobered up. She said she told him to remain downstairs.

He followed her upstairs, she said, and ordered her to take her clothes off. She said she refused and "at that point, he forcibly took off my nightgown and that's when the assault occurred."

The next morning, she went into work. Her co-worker said she could tell the consultant was upset.

"She just kind of blocked me out for however long and as the day progressed she called me in and we had a conversation and she told me what happened," the co-worker said, her voice cracking with emotion.

"I even hate saying it out loud. She was very tearful and very scared at the same time and just bluntly told me 'I was, I was raped.' No one has ever told me that before as far as friends or family. And I knew who. But you know she told me, 'it was Nick.'"

The co-worker said she tried to console her friend and urged her to go to police to no avail.

"She seemed very helpless, very scared more than anything else," the co-worker said. "And just confused and worried and wasn't sure how she was going to proceed. ...It was like I was in a horror movie looking at her."

The consultant said she was worried that if she reported what happened to police, it could become public and she was worried about her career. And she knew he still had those intimate photos.

"It was my belief after I ended our relationship and the assault happened that he would use those against me if I ever came forward," she said.

Moving on with her life

In the months that followed, she said she tried to restore some semblance of normalcy to her life. She reached out to a priest. She went into therapy.

She said Miccarelli continued to contact her. Initially, she said she responded curtly to his emails, offering only one word answers. Eventually, she quit responding at all.

She shared with PennLive screen shots of text messages from 2015 which appear to show Miccarelli begging her to respond. On Oct. 6, 2015, those texts say: "Can we please have a conversation?" "I'm begging." She didn't respond.

On Oct. 16, 2015, texts stated, "If you felt 1/10 of what I'm feeling right now then I can never apologize enough." She didn't respond. He followed next with "I'll leave you alone. I'm a catastrophe without you."

Miccarelli tried refuting the text messages that the consultant has kept on her phone by giving the Delaware County Times a compilation of messages between the two. It lacks any time or date stamps to show when the messages were sent. Instead, at the top of the page in a hand-written note it says, "approximately 2015."

The consultant maintains that some of the texts in that transcript were sent over the course of their relationship when it was still consensual.

By early 2016, when she quit communicating with him "he started rumors that I was sleeping around in the caucus," she said. The rumors ran rampant and reached the lobbying community, so she decided to be proactive about them and tell two of her higher profile clients in late 2016 what she said Miccarelli had done to her.

"I wanted them to know the source of [the rumors] and why they were happening," she said.

She also decided not to take on clients that would send her to the southeastern corner of the state because she feared crossing paths with Miccarelli.

Then the #MeToo movement took hold. Within two weeks of the New York Times' story about multiple women's allegations against Harvey Weinstein sexually assaulting and harassing them, Miccarelli posted on Facebook: "The me too stuff is really hard to read. We must face this issue together."

The statement infuriated the consultant. "That was just kind of the, you know, breaking point for me," she said. "I really thought it was really reprehensible that he said that."

A couple months later, she reached out to Rep. Toohil, who she knew had a prior relationship with Miccarelli, to discuss their experiences.

Out of those conversations arose the idea of filing a complaint about him with the House about workplace harassment. The consultant said they decided to do it jointly to show how pervasive the problem is.

"It's not just in the Capitol and people often forget women on the political side have just as much if not more exposure to these members than women on the inside and we're wholly unprotected from them. We don't have HR policies and we don't have anybody to take our complaints and field them that is independent," the consultant said.

That is why she strongly favors the idea that some female lawmakers have offered of establishing an independent commission to hear complaints about sexual harassment and misconduct and address them through a fair process uninfluenced by politics.

She said the goal in filing a complaint with the House was to hold Miccarelli accountable, but avoid the public exposure that filing a police report would draw.

She said they knew Miccarelli had firearms and a concealed carry permit, and asked House leaders to bar him from carrying weapons in the Capitol complex.

Making matters worse for the consultant is that she says Miccarelli publicly shared her name on Facebook on Feb. 28 as the person falsely accusing him of rape.

"In my opinion, a guilty man attacks his accuser and an innocent man preserves himself. He put my name out into the public domain as a victim of sexual assault, all of my colleagues know, all of my peers know," she said.

In responding to reporters' questions about the allegations, she also came to learn that Miccarelli was sharing the intimate photos of her.

In an interview with the Delaware County Times, one of the consultant's attorneys, Terry Mutchler, said the reporter "told us that Representative Miccarelli brought in and showed photographic material of our client but that the paper refused to accept that material as relevant. And we understand from other news organizations that he has attempted to provide them with the material."

The consultant said, "I knew that he would, after he assaulted me, use that against me if I ever decided to come forward and he did - and alleviated me of my worst fear," she said, her voice growing shaky.

The consultant is weighing whether to come out publicly as a victim and press criminal charges against Miccarelli. She already has spoken with county investigators. She also is keeping her options open about pursuing some type of court-ordered protection.

But she is determined to carry on and said she wants to get back to work.

"Obviously, these details of my very private life being exposed makes it quite embarrassing for me to have to go back to work and look these people in the face," she said. "But like I said, you know, I'm telling the truth and I'm going to see this through to completion."

As part of the interview, the consultant issued the following statement:

"Nick Miccarelli is a rapist and an abuser of women and the truth is on my side and I will not fail to see this process through until it's painful end. ... The truth is on our side. It is ours and we are together. And I will not stop fighting until he is unable to hurt anyone else like he has hurt us."