Ride or Die by Wanda Lauren Taylor

Author:Wanda Lauren Taylor [Taylor, Wanda Lauren]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 1459412494
Amazon: B0756KHYXC
Publisher: Lorimer
Published: 2017-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

Reunion

Kanika rushed to the table and parked herself in the chair beside Panama. She couldn’t believe her eyes. Panama stopped painting her nails and stared into Kanika’s eyes. They just looked at each other for a long time. Kanika read Panama’s face. It was pleading for help. But Dawn was watching closely. Panama remained silent.

“How are you, Panama?” Kanika said at last. “I’ve missed you.”

“Hi, Kanika,” Panama replied softly.

“You two girls know each other?” Dawn inquired.

“Oh, yes. Panama is from Guysborough County like me. We . . .”

“Guysborough? What the hell is that?” one of the girls hooted.

“Sounds like some kind of back-woods hick town to me,” Dawn said and laughed.

“It’s in Nova Scotia,” Kanika announced. “It’s on the East Coast.” Everyone except Panama and Crystal laughed at Kanika.

“You proud of that?” Dawn joked. “Girl, get the hell out of here with that east coast, Scotian shit. Don’t nobody care where you come from. We only care that you don’t be stupid and that you don’t do anything to get all of our faces kicked in. You ain’t no better than the rest of us. We’re all trapped in this crazy-ass nightmare.”

The other girls went about gathering their breakfast. Dawn left the room.

“Do you want to grab something and eat it upstairs?” Panama asked. She motioned to Kanika. Kanika grabbed a bowl of cereal and followed Panama up to her room. Panama closed the door behind them. She set her nail polish down on the dresser and sat down on her bed. Kanika sat beside her.

Kanika knew Panama had a dark story to tell. And Kanika wanted to hear every word. Once Panama was finished, Kanika would tell a dark story of her own.

“You remember Gabe?” Panama started.

“Of course. The creep.”

“He did this to me. He’s the reason I’m here. They took me from the hideout that day, Gabe and three other guys. I thought we were going to Halifax to meet up with some of Gabe’s friends. But it was a lie. He dropped me off at this scary house. He fed me to Dragon.”

“Who is Dragon?”

“He’s the pimp. He owns all the girls here. And he is very cruel. He has all kinds of young guys working for him, recruiting girls.”

“That’s what Danny did to me and Crystal.”

“Danny fed you to Dragon?”

“Yes.”

“Gabe and Danny are both recruiters. Danny was one of the guys who helped Gabe drag me from the hideout. Gabe smooth-talked his way into our little secret in the woods. It was only so he could find girls to give to Dragon. I can’t believe there was a time when I said I wanted to marry him.”

“I know.” Kanika thought about Danny and her dreams of their life together.

Panama was near tears. “Kanika, it was so horrible what they did to me.”

Kanika hugged Panama. She felt her pain. She had lived it, too.

“I tried to fight them off,” Panama said. “But those boys beat me up so bad. I had a black eye and two broken ribs by the time those two thugs rushed me out of Nova Scotia.

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