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“We really need to get out of here,” Paddy told him. He seemed unusually serious and tense. “We don’t want to be caught here. I’m taking a copy of everything on the computer, but I think we should go back to Ronan’s before I show you what I found.”

“Why would we do that?” Harvey asked, confused as they stopped outside a room. “What did you find?”

Paddy looked over his shoulder, and he turned to see Ronan inside a home office. He was standing behind a large, wooden desk, looking at a computer screen. He glanced up at the two of them.

“You’re not going to take this well,” Ronan told him. “Paddy is right. We should do this at my place.”

Fuck that.

He stormed into the room. No way was he going to wait for them to get to Ronan’s house in order to see what was on that computer screen. But when he walked around the desk, what he saw made him freeze, made his stomach drop, and his heart skip a beat.

No. No, no, no.

To his surprise, he suddenly found himself on the floor on his knees, and a sob ripped out of his mouth. “No, that can’t be her. That can’t be her. Please tell me he didn’t . . . that he didn’t . . . ”

“I haven’t watched the whole thing, man. And there’s more. There’s lots more,” Paddy said, sounding devastated. “So, I don’t know if he raped her in any of them.”

Rape.

Had the doctor raped her?

The video showed Lily lying on the bed naked, while the doctor, who wore a stupid half mask on his face, moved her into different positions, touching her body.

Grabbing the trash can, Harvey vomited up everything in his stomach. He could barely catch his breath. He knew he was going to pass out.

Suddenly, Ronan dropped down in front of him, grasping hold of his shoulders. “Don’t do this, Harvey. You’ve got to keep it together, man. Right now, we have a dead body upstairs, a hysterical woman, and a whole ton of evidence to collect. I need you to stay with me. Hear me? I need you to stay with me. Even more than that, Lily needs you.”

He was right.

Lily needed him. And he needed answers.

Then he was going to fucking burn the world down for hurting his girl.

“I’m good. I’m good,” he told Ronan.

The other man stood and then held out a hand to him, helping him up. Normally, Harvey wouldn’t take a hand like that, but right now his legs felt shaky.

He couldn’t help but stare over at the computer screen as he stood. Someone had frozen it.

Lily was lying on the bed completely naked, her eyes were open, but they weren’t focused on anything. It was clear that she was drugged.

Was the doctor just doing this for his own enjoyment, or was there something even more sinister going on?

“Do you know what he was doing with the videos?” he asked, swallowing heavily as he felt his stomach roll nauseously. He couldn’t throw up again.

“Not yet,” said Paddy. “But I have to go through everything. I’ve tried to get access to his work emails, but they’re password protected, so I’m going to have to hack in. Or, I might have more luck at the clinic.”

“I just got the call from my guys at the clinic,” Ronan said. “They found a secret area that was shut off from the rest of the clinic, and in it was a young woman, drugged and out of it. No one watching over her.”

“I want to go to the clinic. I want to see,” Harvey told them.

“I don’t think it’s a good idea,” Ronan said. “We need to keep our presence there under wraps.”

Harvey turned to him. “I’m going. I need to see this for myself. I need to see what he was putting her through.”

Ronan ran his hand over his face, but to Harvey’s shock, he nodded without any more argument. Good.

“Ronan, do you think that’s smart?” Paddy said quietly.