CHAPTER TWELVE
Within minutes, the agents walked back to the cars with five big thugs in handcuffs. I couldn’t believe I finally had Mandy in my arms. I watched her expression turn to hate as the men who had held her captive for the last four days were being muscled into the agents’ black SUVs.
I turned her face toward me and said, “It’s time to go home now.”
Mandy emphatically shook her head and grabbed me by my shoulders. “No, Aunt Hannah, we can’t leave now. There were three other girls with me until last night. They took them to be sold. We have to save them. I’ve become good friends with them. Please don’t let them be sold into prostitution.”
Finn asked, “When were they taken?”
“I don’t remember, early evening.”
Finn looked at me and said, “We must have just missed them. Look, M
