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When he was done dictating, I gaped wordlessly at the e in front of me

She found a hacker the sairl was fearless when she wanted so She wasn’t scared of the dark or the uy she found coded the ured out a way to send it to me so that it couldn’t be traced

Julia Grace had seen the stories about her stepfather on the news She knew the girls from the streets, the ones from the kind of homes that had driven the to talk She knew no one would believe them, but they would believe her She wanted to tell her story She wanted to press charges She wanted to see the man rot behind bars She wanted to come back home, but she needed to know that she would be safe That someone could protect her until Goddard stood trial

"If she comes back, I can put Nassir or the cop on it Either one of theo down, and both have a soft spot for girls on the run" I felt his presence steady and strong behind et derailed He needs to be alive, both physically and digitally, in order to stand trial, Stark" The idea of letting go of e, my payback, was a hard pill to s

"He does, but we already took his money and he doesn’t have a friend left in the co to be able to afford any kind of defense And chances are once he’s in lock up, he won’t last very long, so that life insurance policy will go to Julia anyway Cons don’t like child molesters They like theh on crime Who kno many of them are there because of Goddard? This is for the best, Noe Julia needs this She wants to tell her story because she knows people will listen She wants to speak for all those girls who can’t"

I kneas right, this as supposed to happen, but then I reto kill me and had no remorse about it He treated me like I was disposable I curled my hands into fists on the counter and lowered my head so he couldn’t see the conflict in my eyes

"Make sure your people can keep her safe and I’ll reach out to her" I figured she would be checking the email address she’d reached out to me with I would send her an e that had happened, it felt so anticli to take hi more than her appearance and a feords I was back to wondering if I was nearly as in control as I told th ofto hts

Once Goddard was locked up, once he went down, I had no reason to hang around Snowden Stark anymore I wouldn’t need hiet back tounfettered and free to juhed down, not being pinned by so as it always had been before

Even when things were easy, they were still incredibly hard I guess it was a good thing I was used to sleeping on the ground because I was going to be back there before I knew it

Stark

She was youngso young

She was also small, except for her baby bump It was hard to look at She was hard to look at, but luckily Nassir’s knock-out as great with skittish young wo on the line She was leaps and bounds ahead of the rest of us when it ca would happen to her She soothed her, calirl believe that she was , quiet husband a look, practically de that he make sure her words to Julia Grace were true In the end, it was decided that Nassir was the better bet to keep the teenager safe after she filed a forainst her stepfather The cop told us that the police department was in disarray with the sudden loss of not only the assistant coher ranking officers who had all been on Goddard’s payroll Titus was currently running the station and trying to do the job of twenty irl was better off under Nassir’s protection His nae; no one could deny it