Suburban Dangers by Megan Whitson Lee

Author:Megan Whitson Lee
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: christian Fiction
Publisher: Pelican Book Group
Published: 2017-04-17T04:00:00+00:00

16

Kaki

Wednesday, December 14

The roads were finally clear enough by Wednesday for school to resume. Three full nights of being snowed in with her grandparents and her little brother and sister had afforded her a little glimpse of normalcy. Three full nights of not seeing Damien and only stealing a little vodka from Lana’s stash or popping a pill or two just to get a little lift, and she could actually think pretty clearly. Even so, Damien’s text messages never stopped.

Keep ur mouth shut.

Don’t forget how much I love u.

Remember u belong to me.

I bought u a new phone.

I bought u a new mp3 player for ur car.

U better b quiet.

Brandon was gone.

That reality played over and over in her head like a song that got stuck in her brain. Brandon is gone. Brandon is gone. Brandon is gone. Something had happened on Saturday night. Something that had caused him to run. But she couldn’t remember enough of the night to piece it all together. And of course, she hadn’t been able to tell the police she knew anything at all. If Damien found out she’d told anyone…

“If you ever tell anyone—your mom, your dad, anyone at school…we’ll kill your whole family.” When he’d said the words, he’d spoken them in the same tone he’d used when he first told her he loved her.

Kaki hated what she was doing, and she hated herself for doing it, but she didn’t have any choice. Some of the guys in the MOS gang were killers, and she knew they didn’t make idle threats. But that wasn’t the only thing that kept her shackled to this life. No matter how much he scared her, she was just as addicted to Damien and the ebb and flow of his love as she was to the drugs he gave her. Even so, Damien made it no secret that Kaki was one of about five other girls in his “stable.”

Sydney was Damien’s bottom girl. She’d been around the longest, and she did a lot of work for him and some of the other guys in the gang. She recruited new girls, prepared them to work, and set up the parties they attended.

The night before the party, Kaki had tried to talk to Sydney about how horrible she felt doing this, how much she wanted to stop…had Sydney ever known anyone who had stopped?

Sydney just brushed her off. “Why would you want to stop? Damien takes care of you, doesn’t he? We’re like a family.”

Kaki was tired of hearing these empty assurances from Sydney. “Does your family make you do this kind of stuff?”

Sydney had laughed in response. Her face hardened and her eyes took on this cold, dead look. “How do you think I got started with all of this? Honey, I’ve been doing this since I was fourteen…when my mother pimped me out to her boyfriend’s friend.”

Looking at her then, Sydney was a totally different person. Sydney wasn’t the cool girl who recruited her friends into the trap of prostitution.

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