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“Jesus fuck, where do I begin?”
I cringed at the curse. I knew I’d never be able to hear it and think of Beck in the same light again.
“I don’t know what to say, because like I said, it’s not my story to tell. But, Mickey . . . he’s up to something bad. You heard about the contacts we have in Texas.”
“The human trafficking.”
“Right,” Beck said with a sigh. “Mickey has had that contact for years, longer than any of us realized. I mean, this all began right around the time that Aiden died and Mickey took out Dare’s dad.”
I didn’t know how to be shocked that Mickey had been working with a guy who dealt in human trafficking for over sixteen years. After what I’d heard from Beck this afternoon, I wasn’t sure I could be shocked anymore.
“This contact, William, the reason he and Mickey are so close—the reason Mickey wouldn’t let Kieran kill him when he went radio silent for that week—is because William’s been helping Mickey out for years. Mickey’s building his own ring and he’s forming it here. It’s going to be exactly the same. Bringing the girls here in shipments. Men buying them. He already has a list of men who have been campaigning for this with him. And he’s getting close to starting it.”
I was wrong.
“Oh God.”
“Kieran knew he was hiding something from him and knew it had something to do with the ring starting up. Your boyfriend,” he said with a sneer, “was able to find out what that secret was.” He looked at me for a few seconds, his anger slowly growing. “I still can’t believe you’d fucking do this, Lil! I just keep seeing you standing there in that kitchen. How could you do this to Kieran?”
“Beck,” I snapped. “What did Dare find out?”
He let out an animalistic growl, dragging his hands over his head. “Mickey’s trying to start a fucking war within Holloway. He’s trying to get Finn and Bailey to do something so he can take them out.”
“That’s been coming for a long time,” I murmured, not understanding.
“He’s gonna have Teagan kidnapped and sold in the first batch of girls,” he explained, stunning me into silence.
“I have . . . I have to warn . . .” My stomach rolled. “I’m gonna be sick,” I whispered, fumbling with my seatbelt then turning to claw at the door handle.
I tumbled out of the car and onto the grassy side of the road just as my stomach lurched, desperately trying to find anything to get rid of.
“It’s happening sometime in the next two weeks,” Beck said once my stomach finally settled.
I looked over to see him leaning against the car.
“I have to warn her. We have to save her, Beck.”
I didn’t realize I was crying until I could no longer see him.
“She can’t go from what Finn’s been doing to her to what Mickey has planned.”
“I know,” Beck said as he placed a hand on my back to lead me into the car again, his voice gentle. “We’ll stop it. I promise.”
“Thank you.”
“Lil . . . do you have any idea what you’re doing?” he asked once he was on his side again. “Do you have any idea who Dare is?”
“Yes, I know. I know who he is and who everyone in that house is. I didn’t at first, but by the time I did, I was so gone it didn’t matter.”
Beck was quiet for so long I didn’t think he was going to talk anymore. “He wants to kill you.”
“I know. Einstein told me about Gia—about what Mickey did.”
“What happens when he finds out who you are?”
“He’ll either find me on Holloway, or find out who I am while I’m with him. What’s the difference, Beck? He kills me either way.”
“The difference is we can’t lose you, and you’ve accepted it’s going to happen,” he gritted out. “You’ve been my best friend my entire life. You’ve been Kieran’s . . . you’ve been his everything. We’re not going to let you die.”
