Chapter 296

**Luke’s POV**

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Brent gives me a tout, which takes only a few minutes. There is a communal type area with dirty pillows on the floor and makeshift tables made out of wooden pallets. Brent tells me breakfast will be served here in the morning. There are stacks of board games and playing cards on a pallet in the corner and another pallet is full of packaged paper plates, plastic cups and cutlery. There are large bottles of water that look like they have been refilled many times, the plastic warped and dirty.

“I don’t suppose there’s a bathroom, is there?” I ask, trying not to show my disappointment at their living conditions.

“There’s one around here somewhere,” Brent says, leading me down another mud tunnel. “Here, we move it every few days for obvious reasons. You can always tell which one is a toilet by the colour of the curtain. If it’s one of these blue ones, it’s a toilet,” he says, holding back a curtain to reveal a literal hole in the ground. I fight the urge to wrinkle my nose in disgust.

“What about washing facilities?”

“We have daily trips up to one of the gyms or leisure centers, we have people working in them that can let us in to shower. I’ll make sure someone takes you tomorrow. We also have fresh clothes brought down daily. You can leave your dirty clothes in the corner of the communal area, and they will be taken to the laundrette and returned. I can’t guarantee someone won’t take them though. It’s a bit of a free–for–all with the clothes,” he shrugs.

you. It’s quite the set–up you have here,”

move, so we don’t have anything permanent, but it works. Get some sleep, I’ll probably see you in the morning,” he says before porting out.

They will have someone here keeping them under control, because there’s no way a group of teens would follow a set bedtime routine without it being enforced. Whoever is

can see multiple curtains covering the entranceways to more rooms. Harper

They’re all still awake

silent, but the guy who brought me here said this place is full of teens. I’m going to start searching the rooms, but this place is like

right about them possibly

to check out. They are using gyms and leisure centers to shower. They have people worlding there to let them in, so you might want to get some surveillance set up on any that are near the locations we

Raff know and get something setup to

searching alone for now. I’ll update you

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Chapter 276

yourself caught snooping around

won’t,” I reassure.

proud of you, and I love you,” Josie says.

I’ll be back with you soon, I promise,” I

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