Page 134 of Liberating Lily

“It might help settle him down,” Ronan said. “I know I’d have to see where my girl was being held and treated like this.”

Paddy nodded.

“Have you got everything you need, Paddy?” Ronan asked.

“Yeah, I think I have,” Paddy said.

“Good. I’m going to send a cleaner to erase our presence here.”

“We’re leaving the body as it is?” Paddy asked.

Ronan nodded. “I’m undecided about what to do with the old woman, though.”

“She comes with us,” Harvey said. “She knew about what was happening to Lily, and that means she has to pay.”

“All right,” Ronan said. “I’ll have Sam take her to my place. Let’s go to the clinic.”

When they walked into the clinic, there was no one in the reception area. Which made sense, since it was about two in the morning. However, there should have been someone in the small nurses’ area as they headed out back. Harvey turned to look at Ronan questioningly. “What did you do with the people working here?”

“They’re just having a bit of a sleep. When they wake up, they won’t remember anything. There were no patients here. Just one nurse and a security guard.”

“They might have been in on it,” Harvey said. “The receptionist, too.”

“We’ll find out if they were.”

As they walked past one of the rooms, he saw them both lying on the bed with one of Ronan’s men watching over them.

They reached a metal door with just a keypad next to it. Ronan sent a message, and the door opened to one of his other men standing on the other side.

“Is Michaela here?” Ronan asked.

“Yeah, she’s checking the woman over to make sure she’s all right. She’s totally out of it. I covered her up when I found her.” Ronan’s guy looked a little pale and ill. “Whatever is going on here, it’s fucked up. Someone needs to pay for what they’re doing to these women.”

They walked into a smaller room first. It was like an observation room, with a large window into the room next door. It also had a few computer screens and a couple of seats.

“Fuck,” Paddy said.

They moved into the other room. There was a pale, blonde woman on the bed and Michaela was standing next to her, checking her vitals.

She glanced up as they walked in. Her face was serious, and she just shook her head. “Whatever was going on here was sick. Look at the camera setup.”

Michaela waved her hand around, and Harvey took in the cameras set up around the room. This was where he’d filmed Lily, in this room. There was no real medical equipment, and she’d never mentioned remembering a room like this.

So she’d probably been out of it the entire time she’d been in here.

“There are three rooms,” Michaela said. “Another one like this one. And then a room in the middle that he used for observation. Fucking bastard. I hope you have plans to make him suffer.”

“I wish,” Harvey said. “He’s already dead, and he died too quickly for my liking.”

“Fuck. That’s too bad. I’d have liked to have gotten my own kicks in.”

That was surprising. He’d never seen Michaela lose her temper or show any sort of violent tendencies.

“This is just terrible. We don’t even know who this poor girl is, how she got here, or whether she has any family looking for her. If it’s safe for her to go back to them.”

“What do you think the best idea is for her?” Ronan said, staring intently down at the girl. Harvey could feel the protective waves coming off his older brother, and knew that if her family had anything to do with why she was in here, that she wouldn’t be going back to them. Ronan would see to that.

“Well, I don’t want her waking up in here,” Michaela said. “I’m not sure I want her in this clinic at all. I’m thinking about moving her to mine.”