She shrugs. “I’m still cleaning the streets of crime in a way. I offer up drug addicts and othercriminals I come into contact with through my job as an agent. I pick women no one will notice andmake a little profit along the way. Win-win.”
“For you,” I spit. “Not for the women you trade.”
“Well, we can’t all win,” she says. “I guess you are learning that the hard way.”
I sit tall and ball my fists, ready to fight. Rian simply takes a slow step back and shakes her head. “Ihope you are behaving better for the guests. I have a reputation to maintain with the Cartel andoffering up a troublemaker won’t help.”
I open my mouth to argue, but she holds up a finger to stop me. “May I remind you that a baby couldsell for a lot of money on the black market?”
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