She’s cute.
If I weren’t working, I might say hello.
Caylee.
Yeah.No, I wouldn’t.
It’s not like I haven’t slept with anyone else since we stopped seeing one another.I have.But I’ll be honest, I was a dick and thought about her both times.
All three times.
Might’ve been four.
Anyway...I’m working, so it’s a moot point.Plus, I intend to touch base with Caylee and convince her to forgive me.
That’s the entire plan.
I don’t know if thereisa plan.Because even if she does give me another chance, my phone is going to ring, and I’ll have to leave.
Caylee wants answers.
Answers I can’t give.
“Demographics,” Liam asks, lifting his glass to his lips.
“Middle to upper income.All of them taken off the streets while alone, their parents expecting a ransom request that never came.”Reed stares at the TV and shakes his head.“Which means someone else funded it.”
Fuck.
They were sex trafficked.
“All girls?”I ask.
“Yes.”He turns.“But it’s too precise.Not random.At least, it doesn’t seem that way.”
I know what he means.
Sex traffickers pull kids off the street who look like they are down on their luck, homeless or using.As in a substance.No one is coming after them.No one is going to cause trouble.
It’s low risk and a high profitable return.
They’re sitting ducks while society ismostlyjust standing by and letting it happen.
Targeting middle to upper-class girls is not normal.Not at all.
Usually, as the agent said, that would be considered a kidnapping case and eventually a request for a large sum of money arrives.
If it doesn’t, you consider the job fell apart.
When it happens multiple times, you need to start asking questions.Multiplerichyoung girls start looking like a whole other trafficking demographic.
Precise.
Reed means someone has a customer lined up for these girls and is deliberately targeting them.
But how?
Reed stands, pulls out some notes and slides them onto the bar.Without looking up, as he pulls out his phone, he says.“We’ve tapped out our resources and known leads.It needs a different approach that the agency doesn’t have the...wherewithal to take right now.”
