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Two days after the ceremony I finally went down to the basement to see JD. There were basic amenities available to him and he got fed twice a day. He had a sink and a toilet and an open shower with a cot with bedding. I wasn’t inhumane even though he was a bastard that deserved to suffer.
“You look well JD,” I said to him.
“How long are you planning on keeping me here?” he asked.
“As long as I see fit,” I said.
“Carson will retaliate,” he said to me confidently.
“Oh JD, how naïve you are. Carson gave you up seconds into the interrogation and placed all the blame on you,” I said to him.
“You’re a liar!” he seethed.
“Am I? Why hasn’t Carson come for you yet? It’s been days now,” I said as I leaned against the wall.
“You’re planning on killing me aren’t you?” he asked me.
“Of course, quick or slow depends on you but I prefer slow, make you feel what Rylee felt,” I said to him.
“I have information,” JD said.
“I’m not interested in your information, chain him to the wall and whip him for the next hour,” I said and walked out of the basement.
Two hours later I returned to the basement to find JD lying on his stomach on the cot, his back open and bleeding. I had no sympathy for him, when they had me in their clutches for retribution they didn’t spare me at all.
“Please Lucas, I want to make a deal,” JD said his voice thick with emotions.
“It’s not all bad JD, this is nothing compared to what you did to me,” I said to him.
“I don’t know how you survived that night, I can’t take much more of this,” he said.
“What kind of deal did you have in mind?” I asked him.
“One where you let me go,” he said and I laughed as Rev just stared at him.
“Why would I ever let you go?” I asked him.
“Because I can tell you why Carson and his father isn’t worried about lair rankings, how they make their money, all of it illegal, and where all the missing girls go,” he said.
“Missing girls?” I asked him.
“Hundreds of them, go do a search per state and I can guarantee you that more than half of the missing ones was sold by them,” JD said.
“Sold to who?” I asked him.
“Vampires, wolves, other humans,” he said and I felt a chill down my back.
“You kidnap girls to sell them?” I yelled at him.
“Yeah I did, I followed orders, Carson gets a list, specifications on what their clients want, he has a group that travels all over searching for these girls, he takes them, drugs them and sells them,” he said.
“What the fuck,” Rev whispered.
“That’s what Carson had planned for Rylee and once he even mentioned Hannah,” JD said and before I could react Rev had him against the wall pounding his head against it until he lost consciousness.
I waited three hours for JD to wake up having sent Rev upstairs to calm down. It was odd in the beginning that they never partook in the lair challenges and that they never seemed to reach the top ten even just in Illinois but I never considered to wonder why it didn’t bother them when everything with Carson was always a competition.
“How long has this been going on?” I asked JD once he woke up.
“Years, probably even before we were all born,” he said.
“How does he sell them?” I asked.
“They have a site, it works like an online auction except there are pictures of the girls, clothed, naked, whatever you want to see, it’s live on the auction day and you can monitor the girls in their cages while you bid,” he said.
“I’m going to need the address for that site,” I said to him.
“I’ll give it to you if you let me go,” he said.
“If you ever set foot in Illinois again I’ll end you,” I said to him and he nodded.
“Sam, take JD up to the guest bathroom, give him clean clothes, get an unmarked vehicle ready for him and show him to my office when he’s done,” I said and left the basement once again.
I waited in my office for an hour when Rylee came to find me. I had done a preliminary search on missing persons state by state and had sorted them by age and then by features. The predominant group was girls between fourteen and seventeen with blonde hair and blue eyes.
“Lucas, aren’t you coming to bed?” Rylee asked as she walked into my office.
“In a bit, I have a meeting to conclude quickly and you can’t be in here,” I said as the door opened and JD walked in with Sam.
“What the hell is he doing here?” Rylee asked me as her whole body stiffened.
“I’m letting him go in return for valuable information,” I said. I had promised not to lie to her.
“You’re letting him go?” she asked me angrily.
“It’s not what you think,” I said to her as she stormed out of my office.
“Sorry,” JD said and sat down with a wince.
“The address,” I said and turned the laptop around.
JD typed for a few seconds and showed me the auction site. He wrote down his log in details for me and showed me how to create a new account since they would probably deactivate his details soon. There was a countdown timer showing when the next auction would be held and a field where you could input personal requests.
“This is a whole new level of fucked up,” I said to him.
“So I can go now?” he asked.
“Sam,” I said and he nodded.
He left my office with Sam and I heard the front door shut. I went to my bedroom and opened the patio sliding door and watched JD as he drove away. Rylee was glaring at me and I knew she needed to calm down before I talked to her otherwise we’d just have a fight that would result in me leaving and her crying.
I waited another fifteen minutes and leapt down the fourth floor balcony to the grass below. I heard Rylee’s gasp as I landed and Baz separated from me instantly and spread his wings as he stretched. He held his leg for me and I jumped up and sat down on his shoulders.
Baz flapped his wings and we took off. I had checked JD’s location before I leapt off the balcony and Baz knew where to go. Before long I saw the car on the stretch of road and Baz flew lower. His tail twitched and hit the rear glass of the car and I slid down his tail as the glass shattered.
“What the..” JD yelled as I landed on the back seat and grabbed him around his neck with my one arm.
“See JD I was never going to let you live, no matter what, you hurt Rylee and for that you have to die,” I said softly as I gripped the knife in my hand and stabbed him in the neck. His blood spurted over the windshield, the steering wheel, the windows and over my arm.
The car was slowing down and veering across the road as I climbed back out of the rear window and grabbed a hold of Baz’s tail. When I reached the safety of his shoulders he gave the car a push with his legs and I watched it roll a few times. Baz landed on top of the car once it came to a standstill and I heard the crunch as the vehicle was flattened under his weight.
Baz dropped me on the balcony before diving back into me. We both felt a sense of satisfaction at knowing that JD was dead. I slid the door open surprised that Rylee hadn’t locked it and walked back into the room as she looked at me.
“You’re bleeding,” she said as she stood up.
“It’s not my blood,” I said and headed to the bathroom as I pulled my shirt off.
“Who’s blood is it?” she asked me.
“JD’s,” I said and opened the tap in the shower.
“I thought you let him go,” she said as she stared at me.
“I never promised to let him live,” I said and got into the shower.
The next two weeks passed swiftly as members of the lair arrived at the house to formally introduce themselves to Rylee and Hannah helped her settle in to her position. She got her own office and started to act like the Drakaina. Her first objective was to help the orphans of our lair and she started the construction of a boarding house not far from our house.
She wanted a more familial setting for the children with more people looking after them. The boarding house would have all the necessities they would need with transport to and from school. Meals would be supervised and worked out by a nutritionist and there would be a mother figure for every five children.
We were lying in bed one night and I listened as Rylee talked about everything she wanted to do and how she would manage the new orphanage when a sudden pain flashed through me. The pain was so intense that it had Baz rearing on his hind legs roaring deeply as I felt the bond with my sister snap.
“Lucas! Lucas! What’s wrong?” Rylee yelled as I screamed out.
“She’s dead, she’s dead,” I said in between breaths as I tried to get to my feet.
“Who’s dead?” she asked me sounding hysterical.
“My sister,” I said as I stumbled out of the room and down the stairs.
“Rev! Preston!” I yelled as my legs gave in and I stumbled down the last few stairs.
“What the fuck,” Preston said as he ran towards me and helped me up.
“Chris, something happened to Chris,” I said as their faces paled.
“Let’s go,” Rev said as Preston helped me outside and into the car.
On the way over to their house I regained some control and the pain subsided a little bit. Rev pulled into their driveway fifteen minutes later and kicked their front door down. The house was dark and empty and upon further inspection we found their car wasn’t there.
“Find them,” I said as I looked around. My phone rang and I handed it to Rev. I couldn’t speak to anyone now.
“Yes,” I heard him say a few times and then he ended the phone call.
“It was the hospital, ambulance brought them in, car accident,” he said as he started running back to our car.
“I want our best men on this Rev, I want to know how the fuck this happened,” I said as he drove to the hospital.
He stopped in front of the entrance and I jumped out and ran into the emergency department probably looking like a mad man. There were people all over the place and I had to push through some of them to reach the nurse at a counter.
“Sterling family, they were just brought in by ambulance,” I said to the nurse on duty.
“Mr. Grey, I’m so sorry,” she said and looked down.
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