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“Wait,” Hendrick calls out from beside me in the back seat. “I know where he is.”
Slowly, Dad turns around from his place in the passenger seat to look back at him. His gaze locks in on Hendrick’s, and I can tell he is not only concerned, but it also appears that Dad is more than slightly pissed off.
“You need to explain this. Now,” Dad roars.
Hendrick shrugs a shoulder, acting completely and totally un-fucking-bothered, but when Dad is pissed off, I know there is something concerning happening. Coleman doesn’t speak, but I can see him grip the steering wheel tightly. It seems that everybody knows what’s going on here except me.
“I just wanted something different. I haven’t done it in weeks.”
“You bought a woman who was not willing?” Dad asks.
“What?” I demand.
The air in the room goes completely static. We aren’t good men, the family isn’t some sweet group that helps little old ladies and saves puppies, but we have rules, and rape is high on the list of don’ts in the rules. I cannot believe what I’m hearing. And from my own brother.
“Sounds worse than it is, or maybe it’s worse than it sounds, I don’t know. I was high as fuck every time I’ve ever been there.”
Hendrick gives Coleman the address, and I watch as he types it into his GPS. I don’t know exactly what the fuck we’re going to be walking into. I am still too floored by Hendrick’s confession to even think.
There is just no way that he paid for anything. I can’t comprehend it. He has women falling at his feet at clubs, and here he paid this asshole money for women who were unwilling. Frowning, I look at my brother and start to ask him what the fuck is going on when my dad’s voice fills the cab of the SUV.
“I’m not going to ask you why you did it. I just want to know why you did it with Ray.”
There is a moment of silence, but I can tell that Hendrick isn’t thinking about why he did it. He’s just thinking about doing it in general. Hendrick leans back in his seat and lets out a sigh.
“I was bored. I’d done everything. I’d fucked everyone willing. I needed a thrill, and I was high. It was fun for a while.”
“Until?” I ask.
“Until I wasn’t high, and I looked into her eyes once. That sucked the fun out of it. Then I met Allison.”
Fuck.
Fucking fuck.
“Get there now before someone hurts Parker,” I grind out.
ChapterThirty-Eight
PARKER
The men make their bids,but not before they stand up and circle me like sharks. They poke me, palm me, cup me. Anywhere you can think of, that’s where they touch me. Thankfully, they don’t stick anything, finger or otherwise, inside of me, but I don’t think anything will ever erase their fingers’ touch from my body.
Then one of them reaches up, his fingers digging into my cheeks and forcing my lips apart as he leans in to check my teeth. I am an animal for their inspection, nothing more, nothing less. I am not human in this moment. They are not thinking of me as their mother, sister, or daughter.
They are thinking of me only as a thing.
An animal.
Ray wheels and deals. It’s clear that this is not his first time doing this, not even his tenth. This man is a professional, and my heart sinks at the thought of the sheer number of women who have been used in the way he’s just about to sell me into.
I watch as hands shake as money is exchanged. Everything is going forward. My life is going to end. Ray wraps his hand around the back of my neck and guides me into the middle of the living room before he pushes me down, forcing my knees to buckle.
I wince in pain as I slam against the hard floor. Ray slides the coffee table over to me and places his hand at the center of my back, pushing me over so that my chest hits the table and my bruised cheek is smashed against the hard wood. It’s warm and scratched. I hate that when I close my eyes, I almost feel a sense of comfort.
“Chin on the table,” Ray growls.
Lifting my head, I place my chin on the table and close my eyes. It’s going to start soon, and as much as I want to scream and run, there’s nothing I can do. I’m completely and totally stuck here without an ounce of protection.
