Filthy by Katherine Rhodes

Author:Katherine Rhodes [Rhodes, Katherine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-12-19T06:00:00+00:00

Ellie clung to me, staring at the picture on the table. A photocopy of the catalog that Paige had uncovered.

Finally, she nodded. “It’s Ben. It’s my baby brother.” She snapped her head up and stared at Lily and Paige. “Where is he? Can we get him?”

“We know who bought him,” Paige said, “but we don’t know their real name.”

“Who?” she asked.

“Sansom. He bought him for Frankford,” Lily said.

“Frankford is dead, though,” Ellie said.

“Sansom took him back,” Paige stated.

Ellie pinched the bridge of her nose. “Sansom was one of the covered ones. He never showed his face, not clearly. I don’t think I could identify him if I saw him.”

“That’s fine,” Lily said.

“I know what he looks like,” Lincoln said. “I don’t know who he is, though. I’d never seen him before or after those auctions.”

“So what do we do?” Ellie asked. “How do we get him back?”

“We can’t yet,” Lily said. “We know who has him, but we don’t know his real identity, and we don’t know where he’s being held. We cannot rush this.”

“Sansom is a key player,” Lincoln said. “He was always front row. I’m pretty sure there wasn’t an auction he didn’t buy at.”

“We’ve been looking for my brother for months,” Ellie said. I could feel her shaking. “We know who has him. Why can’t we do something?”

“We are,” Fischer said. “But this is a long process and we can’t afford to mess it up.”

She slammed her hand on the tabletop. “Every. Single. Fucking. Day. He’s in that monster’s hands is another day we lose more of him. Do any of you realize what they did to me? I was hard at fourteen when they grabbed me, but I didn’t fucking enjoy being broken down and used as a human fleshlight. I knew what I was, I was old enough to reason it out, and I was able to hide in my head. Ben is six. They are destroying him, cell by cell. I’m not even sure he’d remember me at this point because that’s what they do.”

She slapped her hand on her head. “They get in here, they carve you out. They rip away whatever made you you. And they replace it with literal nothing. You know what I was like in the hospital! I was clinically insane for four weeks because suddenly my nothing was filling with me again! And you think a six year old can survive this!?” She slammed her hand on her head again. “He can’t! He’s a baby! He’s my Benjamin! We need to get him back here!”

Fischer grabbed her hand and pulled it away from her head where she was hitting herself, hard. “Stop. Ellie, do you think we aren’t working on this every day? Of course, we want Ben out of there. His adoption papers are sitting in Paige’s desk, just waiting for him. We want him here. But this is huge and you know that. We can’t go charging in like Don Quixote at a windmill. We need a precise strike.

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