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I clicked a link on a news Web site and read on:

The Republic of Korea (ROK) is priirls internally and to the United States (often through Canada and Mexico), Japan, Hong Kong, Guam, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and Western Europe for the purpose of commercial sexual exploitation

By the time I finished, I felt sick What did this have to do with Min? I fervently hoped she hadn’t suffered as I was beginning to fear Perhaps she’d run from her past only to have to catch it up with her years later

Her expression as she ith those nation She’d known it was co; it had just been a question of when

Now the question hether we could reach her in tih, we had a kitchen to clean

By the ti and earage, I wanted to collapse The garbage disposal had blown itself up and would need to be replaced Chuch and Eva had gone to bed an hour before, and the fact that she didn’t protest told me just how freaked she must be Chance looked even worse than I felt His backhienerous

"We could take one together" His heart wasn’t in the lechery, though, and he trailed off as he ahed softly "Baby, I would hurt you"

"Promises, promises," he muttered as he shut the door

Shortly thereafter I heard the water running With a tired sigh, I sank down onto a kitchen chair Head inWe seeularly ill-equipped

Chance made it quick, so I took my turn sooner rather than later The stuff from the disposal was sticky, so I scrubbed hard with Eva’s loofah My skin glowed pink by the time I stepped out onto the fuzzy bathI had a robe As I’d left o out vulnerable and bare

Hopefully he was already in bed

Toon the couch He hadn’t donned a shirt, just a pair of track pants that hung low on his hips, revealing the lovely slope of his abdo to be in the salanced up with his heart in his eyes, raw and desperate A jagged piece shifted to the right inside ment, I went to hihtly I angled my head to check out his cuts--at least I told myself that, never hs

"Does it hurt?" I touched his bare shoulder, shivered from the heat of his skin

"More than I knew" By his expression he wasn’t talking about his back, but I didn’t know if heact

Since I didn’t knohat to say, I pretended not to notice the nuances "Would you like s before bed?"

"Please," he said "But I’lanced at the clock on the ?"

"Nope Boys Town stays open all night, and I’ve wasted too o on to bed, but I can’t They’re not going to keep her alive forever"

I suspected he kneell as I did that itonand put on clean clothes He knew perfectly well I wouldn’t let hinore the way he tipped his head back with the pleasure of ers on his skin I remembered how to touch him Wanted to

But I shouldn’t "There, you’re all set Get dressed"

"Bet you say that to all the guys"

I s?"

In answer he plucked a set fro after dark always s look different I’d have been lost frooing I certainly hoped so

We took the highway out to the International Bridge They’re supposed to ask for passports even at road checkpoints these days, but a twenty here and there solved a lot of probleration officer took Chance’s ID and the bill, considered a et a lot of Ah by his expression I i

The coh some bleak areas and he silently locked his door I did the same At his instruction I kept my eyes open for the intersection of Anáhuac and Monterrey, and e first arrived, I was astonished to find a little city within the city The zona even had its own jail, first building on the right

Chance found a place to park, although I wasn’t sure it was safe to leave the Mustang here He shrugged and tookThe streets were alive with guys going fro a palpable pulse to the night in the forht would show a different side of the zona, but at night, it gloith vitality