The next two days went by with Rhea scanning through the hotel records, evaluating the spending habits of the girls and talking to the locals, gathering information about the girls and their stay at the Cockles Town. During the whole of their stay in the Cockles Town, the girls were only seen outdoors in groups or at least in a cluster of two. The rest of the times, they stayed inside the rooms of the five-star hotels that some of those men spent lavishly in. “So they were not just being exploited, they were brainwashed into perceiving each other as enemies so that each could keep an eye on the other!” Aron observed with a frown. Rhea nodded and then said, “It was evident from their behaviour, that they trusted Herberto Alario more than each other. Some of them were downright malicio

