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“I have to! I don’t even know if I want to have this baby!”

“Why wouldn’t you?”

“It’s his, Kiki. It’s Brad’s. Do you know what he’d do if he ever found out?” I can’t do this. I don’t know what to do.

“You can’t keep this a secret, too, Tianna. You’ll rip Remy apart if you do,” she says. She’s right. It will kill him if I keep this a secret, but how do I tell him?

“You’re right. But … just give me a few days, okay? Let me think about this,” I tell her. She nods her head and pulls me back into her arms, holding me as I cry.

Why does nothing in my life work out? Why is everything so screwed up?

Chapter 17

Remy

I don’t know if horrified is what I feel. I honestly don’t know what I feel right now. I sit here staring at the films, multiple films. I’m disgusted.

“She’s okay,” Locke tells me as I nod my head.

“Good. Glad we found her,” I tell him. We hit another location and ended up finding Stan’s sister. She’s safe now. She was being drugged and abused. She’s a mess, and I’m not sure how she’s ever going to come back from this abuse. They used her. But that isn’t my main concern right now. My concern is Tianna.

“Do you know how pissed I am right now?” I ask him even though I’m trying to keep myself as calm as possible. Given the situation, that’s harder than you’d think.

“She was drugged, Remy.”

“I know that! And that motherfucker let it all happen, Locke! He fuckin’ filmed it!” I roar this time. I look back at the computer screen in from of me, and all I see is her. My insides tremble, and I want to throw up. I want to scream. I want to fucking rip his head off for what he’s done to her, and she has no fucking idea. None at all. None of them really did. None of them had a clue he was doing this.

“I don’t know what to say here, brother.”

“Me either. How the fuck do I tell her this?”

“Maybe you don’t.”

“How could I not? She fuckin’ deserves to know what happened to her. She said he would give her sleepin’ pills,” I say before resting my head in my hands.

“They were somethin’ else. We’re gonna find him, Remy.”

“What if he hurt Charlie? Huh? What if that motherfucker has been lettin’ someone to-” I can’t finish the sentence. I can’t.

“Stop! That’s enough of that shit. We can’t think like that, Remy, and you know it!” Gunner roars.

“I can’t help it. Look what he did to her, to Tianna. To those other girls.”

“What he did is fuckin’ sick, and he’s gonna pay with his life for it,” Gunner reminds me.

We set out on a lead today. We got an anonymous call, and we ran with it. We found the girls, well, most of them anyway. Stan’s sister was one of them here. They were being held in rooms with bolts on the doors. Someone had to have known we were coming and tipped them off because there were no men here when we arrived. Pissed me off too. I was ready to get my hands dirty on this one, but knowing the girls are safe is enough for me. For now.

Then, as we started going through everything, we found the tapes. All the girls had cameras in their rooms, so we knew that they were being filmed. But to see the films … to actually see what they were doing to them … it makes me sick. And then I found the others as I dug deeper. Of her. Of my Tianna.

Men. Multiple men. They fucked her. They all took turns fucking her. My Tianna! Anger boils inside me as I play back the films.That is until Hodge snatches the computer from in front of me and slams it closed.

“We’re done here,” he says. I shake my head, pissed at the world right now. I shove out of the chair I’ve been sitting in and storm toward the door. I need out of here. I need out of this building.

As soon as I step outside, I see the last of the girls being loaded into a van. They’ll go to a safe house where the doc can check them, and then they can decide if they want to stay or go. We’ll help them in whatever they decide to do.

I watch the last girl as she climbs into the back of the van, tears rolling down her cheeks. She turns her head at the last minute and mouths the words thank you. I nod my head, and she climbs in, the doors closing behind her.

A hand claps on my shoulder, and I look over to see Hodge standing next to me.

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