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“No,” Quinn laughs. “That almost looked illegal.”

“Can you show me?” Casey laughs and asks Rowan.

“Yeah,” he says, pulling his phone out. He taps around before handing her his phone. She watches for a second before fast forwarding it.

“Okay,” she says. “Email me a copy of that and we will be good. I’ll still send the gun to the lab so there aren't any questions.”

“Not a problem,” Rowan says.

“Tell her,” Theo says to me.

“Dad texted and said he wanted him and I to get together, just the two of us,” I say. “Which is code for him wanting to have sex with me.”

“I know it’s happened before, but when did he start making you do that?” she asks. I look at Theo and he smiles softly.

“If I say, you’ll have to charge him with something,” I say.

“What’s the earliest age that you can remember him doing something that would lead to a charge?” she asks me.

“Uh… six,” I say.

“Oh, Rhea,” she sighs. “Marcus is headed for many charges as it is, so it’s going to be the same timeline. I need to find hard evidence so I can charge him.”

“What if I just set him up?” I ask.

“How so?” she asks.

“I could meet with him alone but in public,” I say. “Marcus will more than likely follow me back to the car or something. Rape is rape, right? At minimum, attempted would get him put away. My admission could get a search warrant, considering he has many years' worth of videos.”

“He videoed that?” she asks.

“Yeah. Started with just pictures, but by the time he was having me full on sucking his dick at ten, he would video it. He even recorded some of the more intense scenes Marvin had with me,” I say.

“You understand that if we don’t get to you quickly enough, he very well could rape you, right?” she asks.

I look at Theo to see if I have gone crazy. “I don’t like it, but I think you can handle it,” Theo says. “I think helping put him away will be healing for you.

“What about you guys?” I ask Quinn and Jace.

“I agree with him,” Quinn says, and Jace nods.

“Everyone else?” I ask.

“I think you can handle it,” Anika says.

“I hate every bit of this,” Rowan says. “But I’ll support whatever you want to do.”

“Alright,” I say to Casey. “When?”

“Today,” she says. “See if you can meet him around three.”

“Okay,” I say. I pick my phone up off my leg and find my dad’s number. I’m not used to having access to everything on a phone, but I like the freedom. Quinn and Jace got me this phone when they got me a new laptop.

“Calling him?” Quinn asks.

“Yeah,” I say. “He will be awake.”

I call him on speakerphone, and he answers almost immediately. “Rhea,” he says happily.