“I did.” He looked at me with sadness as we both remembered the hospital. He had stayed with me all day before they let me out. They made sure I’d passed everything naturally before giving me a final scan.
“And you took her to the cabin,” Gray spoke as he looked away from us all.
“I did. She needed to heal.”
“And you told him nothing?” Gray demanded.
“I’d just lost my baby, I needed time.”
“You lostourbaby,” Gray snapped. “Didn’t I have the right to have time to heal?”
“I think it’s safe to say we all made mistakes,” Jett cut in smoothly.
Gray snorted, and Ash grunted, and I shared a look with Jett as they both focused on looking at anything but me or him.
“You need to show us where they wanted you to go,” Gray said suddenly. “We need to know when you met them, who you met with, what names you remember, all of it.”
“Gray, I—”
Fierce blue eyes met mine and held. “This isn’t just about you. We all lost something. We need to make it right.”
“Revenge?” I demanded.
“These peoplesellbabies,” Ash reminded me. “It’s not some legitimate agency trying to give parentless couples a family. They sell innocent babies to the highest bidder; they’remonsters.”
“Are you sure?” I asked them as I looked down at my hands.
“We are.” Jett’s voice was quiet but firm.
“How?” I asked wildly, my heart racing. “How do you know?”
“Because we found a paper with your name and three names beside it, and beside each name was a price.” Gray’s voice was cold. “I knew what it was as soon as I saw it.”
“Numbers?” I questioned, averting my eyes from his glare to look at Jett.
“Their bid, Quinn,” Jett supplied. “It was the bidding sheet for your child.”
“And we have film,” Ash added, “of the girls giving birth.” He, too, dropped his food back into the box. “One of them died.”
I could feel the tears at the back of my throat. “Why haven’t you gone to the police?”
“We needed to know more,” Jett answered. “We needed to make sure that we had enough to give them.”
“And do you?” I asked them. Jett shook his head in sadness. “What else could you possibly need? You have Dr. Newton and you have the films.”
Gray caught my eye and held it. “Isn’t it obvious? We need you.”
Chapter 20: Gray
She stared at me but said nothing. My brother went to speak, but I nudged him with my knee. He needed to be quiet; she needed to realize that this had to happen. This is what we needed. Whatsheneeded.
They needed to be exposed, brought down so they could never do this to someone else again.
In a way, it was a good thing I hadn’t had my suspicions confirmed earlier about whose baby she was carrying. I would have destroyed something. I wasn’t such a dick that I wouldn’t admit it would most likely have been her. I heard Ash move uncomfortably in his seat, but he didn’t speak, and I was grateful for it.
Quinn finally broke our stare and looked down at her lap. “What do you need?” was her quiet whisper.
“What I asked. Show us where you met with them, if it was different from the place you went to in Nashville, then take us to both. Names,allthe names, descriptions, how many times you met, what they asked, what you signed?”
