I shake my head. “He doesn’t need to.”
“I don’t understand,” Tyson growls, obviously confused and irritated.
“Give us an example,” Saint says.
I let out a sigh, hoping they don’t see my discomfort. I walked into this room knowing how it would go. I’m fully committed. They need to know to stay the fuck away from him. To keep their wives away from him. I may be placing myself on a chopping block here, but it’s for the greater good. The women they marry are the ones I fight to protect. “He takes a woman, places a dildo in her ass and a vibrator in her pussy. He ties her to a chair and plays the most depraved porn you can think of.”
“I don’t understand. How is this training?” Finn scratches his head.
“He shoots them up with hormones as they watch women get fucked while they are forced to come all over themselves. It’s making them think that what they see and feel is okay. It makes them crave to serve.”
“He grooms them,” Kashton states, and I can’t make eye contact with him.
“It is a process with intermittent reinforcements. Submissive and cerebral conditioning,” I add. They don’t just want your body begging; they want your mind to beg as well.
“So brainwashing,” Kashton says, correcting his previous statement.
“And he makes money by doing this?” Sin observes.
I nod. “Yes. He is given the victims. Then is paid once they are sold.”
“How do you know all this?” Haidyn asks me.
“I told you—Bill is our dad, and Evan’s been working with Isabella for years.” I shrug. “I know Isabella is nowgoneand women are showing up tortured and dead. I’m not saying he’s involved, but common sense tells me he might know who is.”
“You think he’s running Dollhouse?” Haidyn is the one who asks. “Took over for Isabella?”
“No. It’s shut down,” Sin answers before I can speak.
“Maybe we should go look for ourselves.” Ryat shrugs and glances at me. “Are you guys close?”
“No,” I lie. Closer than I’d like to be. “And neither is Bill. They haven’t spoken in years as far as I know.”
“But he was there tonight,” Ryat reminds us.
I nibble on my lip as if in thought, trying to decide how to respond to that. “Word gets around fast, and there were about a hundred people there tonight. He could have been informed of the party by anyone.”
“It was invite only,” Haidyn says skeptically.
“Maybe he is still in contact with him and he was the guy who helpedBill locate you at Dollhouse. Bill said he had someone on the inside,” Sin says to Haidyn, and I drop my eyes to my heels.
“I guess it’s possible,” Haidyn nods. “But why would he help Bill get me out of there?”
“Do you ever see him? Other than tonight?” Ryat looks at me.
“No.”
THIRTY-TWO
KASHTON
We ride back to her house in silence. I let everything she said back at Blackout sink in.
She’s a founder and admitted to being sterilized. Sex training and grooming. My girl revealed a lot about herself, but the question is, why now? Why did she do it in front of a room full of Lords before telling me personally? Does she think they’ll try and keep me from her? If so, she doesn’t know me at all.
Pulling up to her house, I get out, and she waits to let me open the car door for her. Once we get to her porch, I take her keys and unlock the front door.
She mumbles athank you, and I enter the house behind her, shutting the door. “Why did you lie to them?”
