Chapter 17
One by one the girls were processed. Tales of kids lured to London on false promises of work, then r**e, sale to gangsters, and p**********n piled up into a mound of human despair. A couple had been r***d and abducted and then smuggled into the country. Some had paid traffickers to get them in, believing they would gain a brilliant life of homes and money. Some girls had just been sold on to work in the beauty business.
At midday she took a break to call Max.
“You must be exhausted,” he said.
“I’m getting that way.”
“I miss you. I need you.”
“That’s why I called. Just wanted to make sure you still cared.”
She clicked off. Suddenly she had so much in her life and so many had so little. She worked on until mid-afternoon.
“That’s it for you, Paula. You’ve done a top job. Th
