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would pretend to go along with everything they said and when she got her chance, she was going to escape.
    “I’m thirsty,” Brianna mumbled. “Can I have some water?”
    “Yeah, but then we gotta have a meeting. My name is Shantel,” the tattooed one said.
    “And this is Tameka. We in charge of the new girls. We gonna teach you what to do.”
    Shantel led them down a hallway into a messy kitchen that was half the size of the room where they’d been imprisoned. Half-eaten plates, balled-up paper bags, and other debris competed for space on the countertops. A roach hovered on the edge of the sink, surrounded by a cloud of gnats. The sour smell in the kitchen was as bad as the stench in the bedroom.
    Brianna and Kaylee sat down at a scratched up glass table. Brianna began surveying the room for windows and doors that might serve as her escape. There was a kitchen window, a back door and a window in what looked like a family room adjacent to the kitchen. Every window was covered with iron bars.
    “I see you lookin’ around,” Shantel said, fingering her long electric blue braids. “You try to escape and all you gonna get is an ass whippin’.”
    Shantel went to the sink, filled a paper cup with water and gave it to Brianna. She saw something floating on top and wanted to ask for a clean cup. Instead, she picked it out, then hungrily guzzled down the water.
    “Okay, this house is all about the money,” Shantel began. “The more money you make, the better treatment you get. Your first time with a john is gonna be a little scary. But after that, it ain’t that bad. You probably been molested by somebody in your family anyway. So at least this way, you get paid for givin’ it up.”
    “I haven’t been molested!” Brianna shouted. “Nobody in my family would ever do that.”
    “Yeah, sure,” Shantel said, rolling her eyes. “Then you must’ve been giving it up for free, which is stupid. Now you ’bout to make some money.”
    “I’m a virgin and I’m staying a virgin until I get married!” Brianna declared.
    Tameka looked as if she felt sorry for her. Kaylee pressed her hands to her face, and started to cry again.
    “I can tell right now that this little heffa is gonna be a big problem.” Shantel pointed a gold fingernail at Brianna. “That mouth of yours is gonna get you in big trouble. Clint and Freda don’t put up with no back talkin’.”
    “I don’t care what you do to me. I’m not going to be a prostitute and you can’t make me!”
    Shantel laughed, held up her hand and gave Tameka a high-five.
    “That’s what they all say.”

Chapter 10
Day One: 10:30 p.m.
    A ngela race-walked alongside Dre as he strode back toward his sister’s house. Instead of turning into Donna’s driveway, Dre headed for his car.
    “We aren’t going back inside?” Angela asked, as she opened the passenger door.
    “Too many people in there. I gotta think.” Dre slid behind the wheel, but didn’t start the car.
    Angela let him do that. They sat there in silence, Dre’s head pressed back against the headrest, his hands gripping the steering wheel.
    “You know what went down, right?” he finally asked.
    “Yep. Jaden’s no fourteen-year-old Christian.” Angela had already surmised that Brianna could very likely be the victim of sex traffickers.
    “I can’t tell my sister what we suspect. She’ll completely lose it if she thinks Brianna is in the hands of some pervert. I just have to fix this.”
    “How?”
    Dre didn’t answer for a long time. “I have no idea.”
    “I have lots of law enforcement contacts I can reach out to,” Angela volunteered. “One of my FBI agent friends is doing some work with the LAPD’s Human Trafficking Task Force. I can call him and—”
    “Human trafficking? What’re you talking about?”
    Angela swallowed. “Dre, it’s possible that Brianna’s been kidnapped as part of a sex trafficking ring.”
    “She ain’t no illegal alien. I’m figuring she was scammed by