204: A SNEAK PEEK

"The other girls?" Isabella asked, her voice sounding different even to her ears. "Yes, the other girls. I wasn't the only one there, remember?" She was staring at her like there was a part of the information she was already supposed to know, but it still wasn't clicking. "Natalia told me you got a scholarship and went off to college; I didn't know when you left the shelter." "That's because I never left." Isabella was beginning to connect the dots. Her eyes went round with disbelief. "So, if you didn't leave, where were you?" "I was still at the shelter, underground. Natalia always tells the volunteer workers who aren't a part of them that a rescue has gone off to college a few months before the person is sold off." A knife could cut through the silence that fell in the room. Isabella, suddenly feeling lightheaded, moved closer to lean on her husband. Amelia turned to the police. "I was almost trafficked two years ago, but I escaped and was rescued and sheltered by an organiza