Page 139 of Liberating Lily

“He videoed me while I was unconscious?” she asked.

“Well, your eyes were open, but you were definitely drugged, probably a high dose of Devil’s Breath or maybe something else. You were just lying there limp, and he was moving you around.”

Moving her around? What did that mean? And why did he look so upset by that? Was the doctor doing something else to her?

“I don’t understand,” she said. “What’s the problem? Why are you so upset by that? What was he doing to me?”

“He seemed to be putting you in different poses while recording you.”

Okay, she definitely didn’t like that. She didn’t like that he’d touched her while she was unconscious. She didn’t like that she couldn’t remember it, and that there was video evidence of it. “What do you think he was doing with the video?”

“That’s what we need to find out, baby. Was he just filming it for his own enjoyment, or was he doing something else with it, something worse?”

Like, what? She didn’t understand. What could he possibly be doing with a video of him moving her around into different poses while she was clearly drugged?

Surely, he wouldn’t want anyone to see that video. They’d see what he’d been up to.

“Was it clearly him in the video?” she asked. “He wasn’t disguising himself? There was no one else there?”

“He had a half mask on. We didn’t see anyone else. I’m guessing there are more videos that need to be looked at. That’s what Paddy’s doing now, going through everything he could find from the clinic and his home computer.”

She still had a feeling that she was missing something here.

“Did Paddy manage to hack into the computer at the clinic?”

“After being at the doctor’s house, we decided to go to the clinic. Ronan’s guys found a hidden area there. One that we think Doctor Wallace entered alone. Although we’ve set up surveillance to see if anyone else enters.”

“What was back there?” she asked.

“We found another woman,” he told her, giving her a worried look. “She was in a room in the hidden area of the clinic, drugged and unconscious.”

Her hand rose to her mouth. “Oh my God, why didn’t I consider that there could be other women? Is she all right?”

“Physically, yes, Michaela said she’s okay, maybe a bit underweight. She took blood to run some tests.”

“Where is she now?” she asked. “You didn’t leave her there, right?”

“No, she’s at Ronan’s.”

“Wait, didn’t you say that Doctor Wallace went home to pack his clothes? Was he leaving? Do you think he told anyone that she was there?”

“We didn’t even think of that. He wouldn’t have just left her there, surely.”

But the look on his face told her that he wasn’t so certain that the doctor wouldn’t have just left her to rot there.

Lily put her hand over her stomach, rubbing it. “So, he was taking videos of her too? I still don’t get it. How did that benefit him? He was just watching videos of himself moving us around?”

Harvey moved away from her, and she knew there was something big he was keeping back. “Just tell me. I need to know it all.”

“I don’t want to tell you,” he said. “I don’t want you to have this knowledge. I’m scared.”

“Scared?” she whispered.

“For you. I’m scared for you.”

“Because you don’t think I can handle this? That I’m not brave enough to deal with it?”

“You’re brave enough to deal with anything,” he said fiercely, taking hold of her hand in his. “You’re the bravest, most courageous person I know, but everyone has their breaking point, and I am worried this might be yours.”