Page 144 of Liberating Lily

They turned back to find that Ronan had his arms around her mother. But her mother wasn’t fighting him. In fact, she seemed defeated.

“I don’t think you’ll get anything more out of her now,” Ronan said as he set her down.

The older woman collapsed onto the floor, muttering to herself.

“What do we do with her?” she asked.

“I’ll set some things up. We’ll ensure the police know she’s broken her bail. They’ll probably haul her in and put her in a secured facility.”

“What if she tells them that you kidnapped her and locked her up down here?” she asked.

“Nobody is going to believe a word she says,” Ronan told her. “Don’t worry about her. I’ll take care of everything.”

She nodded without argument. He sounded like he knew what he was doing.

Instead, she turned to Harvey. “I want to see the video.”

He shook his head. “No. Not happening. Never.”

Harvey didn’t want her to see the video.

And yet, here he was, standing in Ronan’s office while Paddy brought up the video from earlier.

“Have you found any other videos?” she asked.

Paddy glanced back at her and she could tell from the look on his face that he had.

“And the girl upstairs? Did he do the same to her?”

“Yeah,” he said. “And a few others. It’s fucking sickening. It seems that with you he didn’t . . . he didn’t go as far as the others.”

Fucking bastard.

Harvey could guess what that meant and he knew from the way Lily tensed that she understood what he was trying to say as well.

“I haven’t done a full search into his financials, but the doctor seemed to be making some hefty payments to one bank account. I need to find out who. There was also a threat on his phone from someone wanting money. I think it was likely his dealer.”

Yeah, Harvey had seen that threat. That was his guess too.

“Are you sure you want to see this?” Paddy asked Lily.

“I need to see it. Are you . . . are you going to call the police about Doctor Wallace?” she asked.

“We have everything from the clinic that we need. It wouldn’t surprise me if one of the employees has become concerned about Dr. Wallace by now, I’m certain that they will eventually alert the police.”

“And there’s no way that they will be able to trace any of this back to you?” she asked.

“Don’t worry about us,” Ronan told her. “I always protect my family and my men.”

She nodded and turned back to the computer screen as Paddy hit play. It made Harvey sick to watch it again, so he could only imagine how Lily was feeling.

After a few minutes, Harvey had had enough. And then he heard Lily gag.

Picking her up in his arms, he ran with her to the downstairs powder room.

Opening the door, he held her over the toilet as she vomited over and over.

“It’s all right, mo bhreáthracht. Just get it all out. Just get it all out. I know that was terrible. You did so well.”