KEITH: REAPER-Patriots: Book Eight by Mary Kennedy

Author:Mary Kennedy [Kennedy, Mary]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-07-20T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

“CPS will be here around 10:00 a.m. to get Delia,” said Gray, standing with Ashley and Gabi. “She was pretty frightened when she started to come around last night. Ashley sat with her for probably three hours just talking to her until she fell asleep.”

Nine frowned, nodding at his quickly chilling breakfast.

“Can you tell us what she said, Ashley?”

“Normally, I would say ‘no’ but we operate a bit differently here,” she said with a half-smile. “It’s not going to be easy to hear.”

“We know,” said Alec nodding at her.

“Her parents died about eighteen months ago. The uncle was the only relative she had and despite the fact that he’d been charged with having sex with a minor twice before, the Parish said they didn’t have any better options for her.”

“Are you fucking kidding me? I know a hundred couples that would have been happy to take that little girl in.”

“I wish I were kidding, Keith,” she frowned. “She said that at first, he said he wanted her to just smile pretty for the camera. He told her a magazine was taking pictures of her for modeling. She couldn’t see the screens, of course, so she believed him. Then he started asking her to take off her clothes. She refused, obviously, but he would feed her the gummies. She doesn’t remember a lot, which might be a blessing. Delia is having flashes of him touching her or spanking her, hitting her with something; but there is nothing with clarity.”

“She had trouble sleeping last night,” said Gabi. “She said she kept hearing heavy breathing.”

Everyone in the room looked at one another, letting that statement sink in. That poor child was hearing the heavy, disgusting breaths of people getting off on her abuse.

“Has she been raped?”

“Yes,” said Gray. “Vaginally and anally. We can bring charges against the uncle, obviously.”

“Uh, that might be hard to do,” said Bryce looking at Keith. Keith said nothing, just staring at the room.

“I see,” said Gray nodding. “You might not believe this, Keith, or any of you, but I’m more than okay with that. You didn’t see what I saw on that little girl’s body. She’s going to need years of therapy and even then, I’m not sure she’ll ever be able to have a successful, healthy, adult relationship. So don’t feel guilty on my account. I’m glad men like you will do what I want to do.”

“Thanks, Gray. Do we know who she’ll be living with?”

“She doesn’t have any other family,” said Ashley. “CPS has found a foster family that’s dealt with children of abuse before. They currently don’t have any children in their home, so the situation might be ideal. The couple are both sighted, but they’ve worked with blind children before as well.”

“I guess that’s the best we can hope for.” Keith saw the flash of sun on the bumper of a vehicle and stood. Doug was getting out of one of the SUVs with a young couple. “That must be Jeremy and Josiah’s parents.

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