46- Do you have sex every day?

"I heard that Randolph and those guys he works for are totally using that kid as a toy. You know those children's popsicles? They'd buy one back on purpose and lie to her that it was for her, coax her to bite into it, and then ......"

In the basement, the man's voice suddenly rang in Brent's ears again. He said that Randolph would use a popsicle stick or any other food to simulate nasty movements in Elisa's mouth while Hermosa was away, and the others would laugh on the sidelines, calling her a whore for life like her mother. As for what Elisa's reaction was at the time, he didn't say.

But Brent could imagine.

How scared that child must have been, she had no idea what she had done wrong. She must have wanted to jump into her mother's arms and cry when she came back, but Randolph and the men had threatened her. That if she dared to tell her mother, they had a way of making sure she never saw Hermosa again.

She became even more frightened and probably couldn't stop crying every day, but