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“More tomorrow, okay? I’m wiped. It’s complicated, but I’m gonna work on it.”

She nodded and kissed me. “Thank you, Dare. Thank you for saving me and for helping me find my baby sister. I love you so much.”

“It’ll take some time, my baby, but my next goal is to arrange for you to see her.”

Somehow. I didn’t know how yet, but my wife would see her sister.

Kruna. Problem two. Solved. Before the place blew, five big school buses pulled out of Kruna and after those buses pulled away, all the slaves got to see the building explode into a ball of fire, debris, and black ash.

Those buses were filled with Kruna slaves who would be de-briefed and given help, set-up with fresh starts, using money that Jonas had moved around from Kruna and Kruna owner accounts. The slaves didn’t know who saved them; we were careful about that. We’d also be careful about the anonymous donation that would go wherever it needed to go to help.

The official report would list an anonymous vigilante group had informed about the place through knowledge gleaned from Jason Frost, months before. That information would link Jason Frost, dead Donavan Frost, and the dead Sylvia Frost to the sex slave resort. No other Frosts would be in politics for the foreseeable future.

The bus drivers would only tell authorities they were paid in cash to drive to Kruna and load the buses with the people that were led in by four men in balaclavas. The buses were driven to Chon Buri, to the office run by Barry Dresden’s task force. They were to ask for Randall. The office hadn’t closed and Randall hadn’t left it yet. He could deal with them for starters, send them all to that retreat. Help them get on with their lives.

And before we left Thailand, I’d called Lisa and got some other very helpful information. Tino and Nino were staying behind to take care of another problem for me. A problem that needed to be dealt with.

A 27-year-old man would be found dead in a Chiang Mai motel room after we left the country.

No one knew that it was Jason Frost, though. I couldn’t risk his name coming out in case someone out there who was left over from Kruna who’d been told I’d had Jason taken out months earlier.

There was also the fact that the motherfucker had hurt my Angel, had been responsible for her going to Kruna in the first place. I’d have done it myself, I wanted to, but I was more focused on getting home and getting on with my life. So, Nino and Tino had taken care of that for me.

Lisa told me all about seeing him at the retreat. The retreat was also the place they’d been holding him. We greased a few palms and got enough info and we’d gotten him out of there before that task force had been dismantled to the point that Frost was released.

That’s what I suspected would happen – they’d let him go. And I couldn’t fucking have that.

I handled this part of things quietly; Angel didn’t need to know. Unless she wanted to know.

It didn’t take long for her to bring him up.

“I wonder what’ll happen to Jason,” Angel mused, back at home. I’d just finished having the place swept for bugs by Hal, Zack’s guy, in case someone had gotten in while we were gone. And then I had JC, our cleanup guy, come in and do it again in case Hal was not on the up and up. It was clean.

“What do you mean?” I asked, innocently, locking the door and setting the alarm.

“He’s being held for his testimony. Lisa saw him. Now that things have changed, what’ll they do to him? Do you think they’ll just release him? Oh shit, do you think he’ll come after us?”

“No. Jason won’t be a concern.”

“How do you know.”

“I know.”

“Dare?”

“Jason Frost was found dead in a motel room’s bathtub. But no one knows it was him. John Doe. I don’t think they’ll recognize him from his dental records, considering I’m pretty sure he died after his teeth being pulled out one by one. His organs were harvested. Someone might as well get use out of that guy.”

She went wide-eyed.

“You did that to him? Or you ordered it be done to him?

“I made some calls.”

“Nino and Tino. That huddle. Do I want to know any more details?”

“You’ll have to decide that for yourself, Angelbaby.”

You’d tell me?”

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