She saw Elsie give a saucy smile to one of the guys and started grinding her hips on him. Pari rolled her eyes and stayed with Elsie for the remainder...of the song. The other guy moved closer to her and started to move his body against hers a little too intimately. She was getting uncomfortable and tried to move away when he snaked his arms around her waist. Once the song was over, she tried to step away from him but he held on to her. His hands gripping her elbow almost painfully. She tried to. As they donned their backpacks, Sophia brought them two of their steaks already wrapped in the food insulation used for backpacking that Dessie had included with the steaks. She chuckled as she thanked Sophia. “I forgot to tell you what the insulation material was for, but it looks as though you figured it out.”Sophia chuckled. “Many people backpack while they’re staying with us, so I’ve seen it before.”“I’ll be looking forward to those steaks all day,” Phillip offered.“I’ll be looking forward. My initial alcohol-induced demonstration of my power over her had somehow become a perverted evolution into her and Brian's exclusive shared passion. I had assumed there would be an understanding between the three of us, but somehow had been maneuvered out of my position.I had awoken the morning after the party and the absence of Lisa in her accustomed place in my bed was jarring. I had raised myself and peered over the side of the bed. On the floor a naked and leashed Ingrid lay curled on her. He compared the various statements and reached a very ominous conclusion. Examination of the bank accounts of the two families showed amounts of money which could not be reconciled with their employment income.Detective Springer was convinced that all the evidence pointed to only one logical conclusion: Young girls were being sent to the two houses where they were used for the purpose of, basically, high-priced prostitution. The problem he was facing, however, was that he did not have enough.