Page 30 of Royal Sons MC

With another swipe of her finger, she pulled up the next camera. This one in the hall leading toward the suites where Rico kept his playthings. Only Kailani knew they weren't there by choice, at least not once they knew his real goals. Rico wasn't a teen boy like he portrayed online. She had no clue how the young girls couldn't see through his act. Hell, he had laugh lines around his eyes and a hardness that you can't hide in real life. However, the ones he targeted weren't looking for those signs. All they saw was what he showed them. A sweet boy who spoke softly told them they were the light of his life, the apple of his blah blah, or whatever they needed to hear. It was enough to make her want to vomit or stab him in the eye if only she were braver. Well, tonight, she was going to be more courageous.

Kailani picked up her designer backpack, which held all she needed to escape and make a fresh start. She only hoped it also helped her get the girl free. "In for a penny in for a pound. I hope it's not my pound of flesh that ends up being the price." She made the sign of the cross, offered up a prayer, and then checked the cameras one more time before slipping out the door. On silent feet, she walked toward the suite she had never visited. If she were going to lose her life, at least she'd do it trying to save another because she couldn't lay in her big posh bed one more night, knowing a girl would be raped, brutalized, then sold to the highest bidder in short order.

With her heart banging like crazy, she moved as quickly as she could, being sure she was as quiet as a mouse and kept to the shadows. Once she was at the stairway that led to the next level, she took a deep breath and held it until she reached the suite where her brother put his girls. The sound of a quiet sob drew her up short, making her think Rico had already gotten to the room, but then she heard a young girl's muttered curse through the door, the words sounding like she was trying to muster up the courage to bang on the door.

Kailani pulled out the skeleton key she'd copied, the one her brother had no clue she even knew about. Before she could change her mind, she inserted the new key into the door, hearing the snick of the lock disengage. One hurdle down.

"Rico, thank god, I was...Oh, I'm sorry. I was expecting Rico. Who are you?"

Kailani took in the gorgeous features of the other girl, shaking her head. "I'm Kailani, Rico's younger sister. I would love to stay and explain everything, but we don't have time." She shut the door behind her, locking the door just in case. "Rico isn't who you think he is or what you think he is. He's not a teenager, or however old he told you he was. Nor does he plan to return here and be the gentleman you expect." Kailani took a deep breath and quickly glanced around the room. "I can't believe the way he has his room kitted out. It's much more grand than I thought," she said, amazed at the fuckers audacity.

"I...I kinda got that idea. He um, looks older in person than he did online, but he was still really nice. I thought maybe it was his heritage. My name's Tiana." She ducked her head, her voice wobbling. "I tried to open the door after he left, but it's locked. I banged on it for a long time, but nobody came, and the phone didn't work. I want my sister," she cried.

A shaky sigh left her at the young girl's real fear. "I have a plan. Hopefully, I can get us both out of here, but we'll need to hurry and be very quiet. I don't know where your things are, so if you're attached to anything, you'll have to leave them." Kailani didn't want to give her false hope.

Tiana nodded. "I just...I want to go home," she cried softly.

"Where exactly is home?" God, please let it not be New York or some other state.

"Northern California, just north of Los Angeles." Tiana took a deep breath. "Rico picked me up from school and said he had a great adventure planned, then we boarded a small plane and came here. I...I didn't know what to say or do. I thought he was taking me out to eat, maybe shopping. I didn't get to tell my sister I wasn't coming home or where I was going. She probably thinks I ran away." She bit her lip and turned away.

"Listen, we can discuss this once we're on the road. Right now, we don't have time. Get your shoes on." The longer they stood there chatting, the greater their chance of getting caught. She pulled the camera app back up, sighing at the image of Rico and his guys still sitting around the table drinking. She nearly dropped her phone as she watched her father storm into the dining room through the small screen, his anger rolling off him in waves. Good lord, she was glad she wasn't in the room with the men. It was clear that whatever her brother had done ticked her father off. She watched her brother sit back, a smug look on his handsome face as he gestured toward the wine on the table. Her father, Ricardo Trevino Senior, picked up the bottle, looked at the label, then, without pausing, broke it over the head of the man to his left. Her brother sat up, his face registering shock then wariness. The other men hurried away from the two Trevino men. Although her father was over fifty, he was as fit as men half his age and wasn't afraid to get his hands dirty. A shudder shook her.

"Hurry, we must leave now," she said.

Tiana hurried over, her hands rubbing together in front of her. "Where are we going?"

Kailani unlocked the door, opening it quietly as she peered down the hallway. She looked back over her shoulder. "Stay right behind me and keep your mouth shut. Walk where I walk and don't say a word. Understand me?" She waited for the other girl to nod. "We're going to my room, then out the window there. I have an escape kind of ladder out my window. It's made of rope, so I hope you have some muscles in those arms."

"I've been in gymnastics since I was two years old. I can climb down a ladder." Fire lit her eyes, letting Kailani know she could count on her to hold her own.

"Let's do this." She tried to smile, but their lives were literally on the line. If she got caught trying to escape with a girl Rico had kidnapped, an underage one at that, she might find herself six feet under at best, sold like the others at worst.

They made it to her room without incident, her backpack feeling heavier every step she took. Not because it was filled with a lot of stuff, but because she knew once she made it out of the window, with or without the girl, Kailani's life would be forever changed. She would no longer be Kailani Trevino, the welcomed daughter, but Kailani Trevino, the traitor. Seeing the faces of all the girls, girls she knew were either dead or wished they were, the choice was easy. She would no longer stand by and watch while her family ruined another.

"Alright, you go first," she instructed Tiana.

Tiana shook her head. "What if they find me down there?"

Kailani peered out the window at the colossal shrubbery that hid where they'd eventually land. "If you stay up here, and they come looking for you, what then?"

A shiver wracked Tiana's frame. "What if you get caught, and I'm out there all alone?"

She shrugged off the pack. The expensive LV symbol emblazoning the bag meant nothing to her. The items inside are precious, as they were enough to set them up if needed. "Inside this pack, there's a cellphone and enough money to get you anywhere you need to go. Take it," she said, putting it over Tiana's shoulders. "Go, we've fucked off enough." If the girl didn't go quickly, Kailani was going to throw her out the damn window. "Tiana, do you know what his plans are? He will take your virginity if you still have it, then he'll let the guys with him have you, do what they want, after he's had his fill of you, then, after they've used you up, taught you how to please a man, they'll sell you to some third world country dignitary or drug dealer. It doesn't matter to them who you go to, just as long as they make a few thousand dollars off your body."

Tears welled up in her youthful eyes, making Kailani feel like a righteous bitch. "Is that what you want? Do you want to be his whore for a few weeks or months, then become someone else's whore, because that is what you are facing? Now get your ass out that window. I didn't risk my life to save yours for nothing." She didn't care that her voice shook or that her horrors probably showed in her face. No, if this young thing thought Rico wouldn't do that to her for one minute, Kailani would gladly show her the error of her ways.

"Please don't leave me down there alone," Tiana begged.

Kailani turned her toward the window. "Trust me. The last thing I want is to be here when they find you gone." That was putting it lightly.

Once Tiana was over the ledge, Kailani rechecked the app. Her hand went to her throat when the image in the dining room showed her an empty table save for some plates and bottles. "Shit. Shit, shit, shit," she swore, hurrying to the window ledge and looking down. Tiana was almost to the ground. The weight limit on the ropes stated it could hold two hundred pounds. She feared their combined weight would be too much if she and the other girl were simultaneously on it. If she didn't get them out now, she had a sneaking intuition her window of opportunity would be closed. With one last glance toward her closed door, she slid her leg over the windowsill, sent another prayer, and hoped her mother was watching down on her.

The last five feet seemed to take forever, and in her life, forever was long. Tiana stood with her back against the house, her hands in tiny fists at her sides, sweat dripping down her forehead, but she didn't utter a word.

Kailani dropped down the last foot, her breath coming in and out in harsh pants like she'd just run a five-mile marathon. "Come on, stay behind me, and don't make a sound. They're not in the dining room, which could mean my brother is on his way to see you, or he's with my father. I don't really know, but we don't have time to fuck around."

Tiana only nodded, her taller frame straight and sure.

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