Page 91 of Dark Endures

What is going on?

Adonis and Dahlia are kissing on the couch!

A Cell Phone

Maddox

“How many more do we have to load?” I watch as zip-tied johns and some of the pimps climb up into the back of the moving van.

“They have one more floor to go through. It shouldn’t be more than 5 to 10 minutes.” Jacko stands guard with me.

“Do any of the kids require medical care?” Getting them down from the cages on the ceiling was a long process. If there had ever been a fire, none of them would have made it out. Though it’s doubtful that the filth planned on letting any of the girls live to become adults.

“None are critically injured. Most of them will need to see a doctor soon. I’ve already mobilized the clinic in town for those that are willing to go. Fiona is arranging food and their dorm rooms. The half dozen adults we found are on the way to the Nest now.”

Enzo rushes up, pushing a cart full of electronic equipment. “This is everything except the physical copies they kept. All of those were destroyed.”

“Guess who got to use a grenade?” Pit struts up.

“That’s because Dyce didn’t leave you anything but bodies.” Ace follows behind her.

My cousin looks like vengeance personified. She hit the zone somewhere around her sixth body.

We made the ones without bullet holes in them pack the bodies into the moving van first before climbing in.

“That’s everyone.” Canyon walks up.

Jacko slides the truck door closed, locking them in. “Vincenti has a ship ready for them. Do you think they know we’re taking them to their deaths?”

They will.

“He said he appreciates us sending over presents, but next time there are this many, he wants an invitation to the party.” Jacko reaches down to pick up the leader that’s trying to inch away thinking he’d go unnoticed. “You get the privilege of riding with us.”

Chained to a hook in the trunk.

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The lights of the city go by in a blur, but I’m not really looking at them

Something isn’t right.

This group was too big to go undetected.

Someone had to have been helping them. We just walked in. There was barely any pushback from the men. None of them seemed all that bright.

Setting up and running this took brains and forethought.

“You’re thinking the same thing as me, aren’t you?” Dyce shifts to face me. “These guys were too stupid to be in charge.”

“Yeah.”

“We have a bigger problem.”

Hopefully, the dead man in the back will give us some answers before we kill him.

“Should we have waited?”

“And leave those children to be tormented for a moment more?” There’s no way I could have held the guys back even for a day regardless of whether it was logical or not. “If it’s part of abigger ring, we’ll set Vex on them. But those children had to be rescued.”

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