I heard him chuckle. “Anyone can be a whore, bitch. All you gotta do is spread your legs and let the man take over.”
“No!” she yelled back.
I swallowed hard as I watched the exchange. I couldn’t tell what she looked like other than she had dirty blonde hair because her back was to me. Though, after all this, all of us were dirty.
The man unlocked the cage, swung the door open and hissed, “What did you say?”
“You can’t make me—”
I jumped at the sound of his palm connecting with her face. “We can make you do whatever the fuck we want, bitch. You belong to the Martinez family now, do I make myself clear?” She nodded, and then the man snapped his fingers, and another man handed him a syringe. “Since you’re a doctor, I’m sure you know what I’m about to do.” I flinched as he jabbed the needle in her arm and she slumped in his arms. He threw her limp body to the ground and asked, “Does anyone else want to object to what we have planned for tonight?”
No one said anything.
“Good. Now take your fucking clothes off and get in a single file line. When I come back, you will look down at the floor and follow me. You are not to look up or make eye contact. If someone wants to take you for a ride, you let them. But know this, we’re watching. If you fuck up, I’ll do more than hit you.”
17
Seth
No more pussyfooting around.
It was time to take Tony, and the other traffickers he was associated with, down. The problem was, I needed to keep my emotions in check. Knowing that Tony had sold Joss’s virginity made me hate that fucker with my every breath, but knowing that the local PD and VICE would be watching my every move, I had to be on my best behavior.
Joss had made a call—or maybe a few calls. I wasn’t sure since I wasn’t involved, but she’d called my hotel room and told me that we had backup. I breathed a little sigh of relief because I wasn’t sure what I would be walking in on. Pimps and traffickers weren’t known for being reasonable. In my experience, even if they weren’t trained, most of them carried a piece on them. If Bryce were telling the truth, then Paul and I would be outnumbered. For this plan to work, I needed a driver.
“We need to recruit Gabe.”
“What?” Paul questioned as he attended our initial I-need-a-bodyguard-meeting.
“I’ve been thinking. Given that we’re not getting a one on one with Tony, I need you by my side even when we drive up.” Originally I didn’t want Gabe involved. He had a family he was building, but all I needed him to do was drop us off so Paul could be by my side.
“He’s not going to go for it.”
“He won’t be in the line of fire. All he needs to do is drop us off.”
“Why can’t we get someone else? Or take a taxi?”
I laughed. “A high-powered business man isn’t going to take a taxi—”
“Then a limo.” Paul paced in my suite as he thought about what I was telling him.
“Yes, we need a limo or at least a high-end SUV. But I think it would be best if we didn’t have a stranger drop us off at some random place.”
“I’ll ask him.”
I shook my head. “No, I will. Call him and have him meet us here.”
Thirty minutes later, the former Army Captain was walking down the stairs in my suite. “What’s so important you had to meet in this …” He looked around the room. “I can’t even describe it.”
Guys weren’t very good with describing shit. I couldn’t describe the suite either other than it was fucking perfect and I felt like a king up in it.
“Like I said on the phone, Seth wants to talk to you.” Paul nudged his head in my direction.
Gabe turned to me, and I nodded my agreement. “I know you said you didn’t want to be involved in our undercover mission—”
“I don’t” he stated.
“I only need you as a driver.”
