CHAPTER 20
NCB LEARNS INDIGO'S BACKGROUND
Connie Brady knocked on the heavy wooden door. Linda Steele and George Ramirez stood beside her.
“Enter,” said a male voice inside.
Connie opened the door, and the three of them stepped inside. Bennett lay in the enormous bed, its red silk sheets ruffled. Late afternoon sun filtered through the curtains.
Next to him, a young woman scrambled to pull on her clothes. The brand above her left n****e was still red and scabbed over from where she’d received it a month earlier.
“You can go,” Bennett said to her.
She sat up with turned her back to Connie and the other blue bars. Her ribs and spine protruded from her frame before she slipped on her shirt. Connie recognized her as a red bar, but couldn’t immediately recall her name. Hayden or Jaden or
