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"Tell me the rest," I said.
Her eyes danced. "He went down like a sack of rocks. Or a – no, can't make that work, but you know, sack, because damn! That's where I got him, most guys protect it better, but he was so damn sure of himself, and Barry was fantastic, you should give that boy a raise."
I smiled at her, but even I could sense the coldness in it. She'd had her moment in the sun. Her smile started to fade. She looked uncertain. I didn't want to drag her down but the facts were she hadn't been in control of the situation. Maybe she would have gotten control, but without Barry?
That made me physically sick to think about. I'd have torn the world apart if I had to in order to get her back. I'd just as soon not have her going through whatever it was before I found her.
And then she'd done what before coming back here? And the way she was dressed. Maybe she was high off the event when she went wherever she went, and she definitely had the figure for it, those big, firm breasts and the tiny waist, the slim hips and great ass. But walking around Las Vegas wearing what amounted to an anime schoolgirl outfit?
No.
"Tell it from the top again," I said, my voice very calm.
She was still bubbling. She was excited the judge had just been taken out like that. Wherever he went, he wouldn't be able to hurt anyone.
But before I said anything, her eyes darkened. "But there's a system in place there. He called security and it wasn't to protect him from the little college co-ed."
I nodded. "What do you think they were going to do?" I stood, slowly, letting her watch me uncoil.
She shivered. "I think it would have started with rape."
I nodded. "You went in planning a seduction."
That got a flash of annoyance. "And the minute I changed my mind, as girls do, I was off limits."
I snorted. "You know there are a good many men who don't stop once they start."
"I know what sexual assault is, too." Defiant, her hands on hips.
"Annie." My voice was warning.
"No. Hang on a second. Because beyond what I did and past what Barry did, which was awesome, there's a problem."
I blinked. "Several. Which are you referring to?"
She didn't react to that. Her mind was on something else. Something that made her what she was.
"Trafficking."
I nodded impatiently. "I'm well aware."
"No," she said, and I felt my hands tighten in anger. "I mean, they had a system in place. It was going to be rape and then the co-ed disappears and maybe what I was offering them was a juicy twit on the half shell –"
I laughed. I couldn't help it. "A what?"
She almost brushed that away before she said, "I mean, I offered myself up as a juicy morsel. A dumb as dirt girl walks in and tries to seduce the judge for no good reason. Gonna get what she wants any way she can get it. He takes her one way or the other, either because she's so stupid she thinks that's what she has to do to get whatever it is she wants, which in that case was a freaking grade, or he just takes her because –"
She paused, looked me in the eye. "Because she's already in the system."
I thought she was thinking of the undercover persona she adopted, the girl Lily who had slept her way up to lead chick in the Brotherhood and all the girls that girl had lost, girls who weren't undercover and didn't have almost-doctor boyfriends or clean apartments or cop fathers. Girls who really were that lost, really were reaching out for someone or something.
Those girls, called before the judge who wanted to what? – impart knowledge? Offer them a second chance? A good spanking and they could go on their way, all forgiven and their records expunged, just this one time, see you don't get in trouble again, missy, and even as she's leaving, his smell still on her, still lodged in the back of her throat, or her ass still red, then security shows up to guide her through the rest of the intake and exit process, she'll be out of there in no time and don't let me catch you reoffending.
Except.
Except nobody saw her after that.
Except that the exit strategy was deep into a sex trafficking ring.
