CHAPTER 58
EXPLOITATION
Blanca pushed open the front door, expecting her aunt and uncle to greet her as they usually did. It was too quiet. She called their names with no response. In the kitchen, she found a note in her aunt’s scrawl, telling her they were meeting friends for dinner.
It was for the best, given she needed to view the contents of the USB drive from Pedro’s filing cabinet. Sitting on the couch in the living room, she set the laptop on the coffee table and inserted the USB.
She saw a list of files that bore women’s names. Opening one, named Catalina, she sat to watch a video. It was a footage of a strange man looking out at her for several seconds, until it shifted to a naked girl lying on a bed, appearing drowsy. Blanca guessed she was about fifteen years old.
The man t
