Midnight Rescue: A Killer Instincts Novel by Kennedy Elle

Author:Kennedy, Elle [Kennedy, Elle]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781101585252
Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: 2012-05-01T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

“Wake up.”

Lucia slowly opened her eyes. Was it morning? One couldn’t tell, not here in this cold, dark room.

She missed her mother. Was Mamá looking for her? Did she think Lucia was dead? Tears stung her eyelids. She didn’t want to be here anymore. She wanted to see her mother, and put on her red and white school uniform, and play behind the church with her friends.

Across the room, Valencia was already awake, her long hair twisted in the messy braid she’d fixed for herself last night, when she and Consuela had tried to distract some of the younger girls by doing their hair. But nothing could distract Lucia. She was fully aware of where she was, though not so sure why she was here.

She got a niggling idea as the halcón snapped his fingers to get everyone’s attention, then gestured to the burly man beside him.

The man holding a camera.

A tremor went through her as a third man entered the room, dragging in a green hose dripping water at its spout.

“You,” the halcón barked, jabbing a finger at Emiliana. “Take off the clothes and stand against the wall.”

When Emiliana hesitated, the guard held up his rifle and shook it ominously. Emiliana quickly ran to the wall and started to strip.

Lucia watched in horror as, one by one, the girls around her were forced to undress and stand in front of the hose. The halcón tossed them a bar of soap, ordering them to clean themselves. After each girl had been cleansed, the other guard gave her a towel to dry off with, then made her go to the other side of the room, where the man with the camera had set up a tripod.

Lucia flinched every time the halcón pointed at a girl. Soon he would point at her. Soon she would have to remove her clothes while the men ogled her naked body.

Vomit rose in the back of her throat. She swallowed it down as hard as she could, pushing the bad taste away.

The halcón flicked a finger at her. “Your turn. Get up.”

Lucia trembled as she climbed unsteadily to her feet. Her fingers were numb, cold. She could barely undo the first button of her shirt.

“Faster,” the halcón snapped.

She quickened her pace, wishing the entire time that she could disappear. That she was somewhere else. Anywhere else.

Just not here.

Isabel woke up feeling disoriented. It took her a few seconds to remember she was in the honeymoon suite at the hotel. Rubbing the sleep from her eyes, she sat up in bed and glanced at the thin shaft of sunlight streaming through the thick gold curtains hanging at the window that overlooked the city’s business district. The king-size bed was covered with a dark yellow bedspread and a mountain of decorative pillows that she’d kicked off during the night onto the rich burgundy carpet. She hoped none of the pillows had conked Trevor in the head. When they’d returned from their meeting with Esposito last night, he’d

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