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"I wasn't exactly showering," I re my head at e at how deep I had sunk so quickly

"I wasn't judging you, Ro his head "I think any normal person would have been just as shocked and saddened as you were"

"Have there been any new developments?" I asked

"We don't have to talk about that now"

"It's okay I'm okay I can handle it I proive your permission to forcibly shower ain"

"Okay," he agreed, taking a deep breath "Working with our new infor part of this trafficking sche evidence About Celenia being involved About the people she has been known to hang around with in Venezuela They've been general menaces to society in mostly small ways But a few of thees"

"No surprise there," I grumbled into my wine that suddenly didn't taste quite as delicious as it had a moment before

"Has anyone seen her?"

"No No one has seen any of these people since before the news stories broke about the containers"

"But you don't think they're gone"

'They're not gone," he insisted, shaking his head "Sorry I' that, but I need you to know that this isn't the end They didn't learn from their ways, find God, and repent for all the evil they've done People who traffick other people don't go back to nine-to-fives"

"It's profitable," I figured

"Depending on who is being sold and for what purpose, each individual can be sold frorand"

"That is what a life, a soul is worth to my sister Forty-thousand dollars That's despicable," I concluded, finally tripping into the anger stage of grief

"Maybe we shouldn't be doing this," he suggested, reaching across the table to place his hand overmy fork