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Here's an excerpt from Episode 3:


Vanessa’s fingers traced absently over Jada’s face on the missing person’s flyer as she listened to Chaz recap what he’d uncovered. Much of it was what Marcy had stated. The new piece was that several missing young women had been reported as visiting the same area mall within a few days of their disappearances. The FBI’s task force included an OHP officer who was friends with Chaz, and he’d stated that the investigation was focusing on locating the network of criminals above recovering the abductees. Vanessa understood what that meant: the unofficial law enforcement belief was that the females weren’t recoverable, that they’d probably been moved out of the area soon after disappearing, and the best priority was tracking down the human traffickers and putting an end to their operation. Preventing future abductions was more important than rescuing those who’d already been taken. Concurrent with the task force’s objectives, each local police jurisdiction was expected to purse the individual missing person’s cases according to their protocols and elevate any new information to the FBI for determination of its usefulness.

In other words, Cincinnati police would continue to hold the primary responsibility for locating Jada and the task force—FBI, Ohio BCI, Ohio Highway Patrol, and assigned police department personnel—would try to cripple the higher-level criminals responsible. That wasn’t good enough. They needed to find Jada, and they needed to do it quickly. Her wellbeing wasn’t simply incidental to the larger investigation. Marcy needed her only child back. And Vanessa needed to do whatever it took to help that happen.

“I want to go undercover,” came out of her mouth without a second thought.

“And do what?” Steve asked with narrow eyes.

“Under who?” Chaz asked at the same time.

“I don’t know,” she snapped. “But I can’t sit back and do nothing while the task force focuses on everything but bringing home Jada and any other missing girls!” She stood and leaned her balled fists on the table. “I need to do this and you both know I’m good undercover. We know this racist-ass city, like the majority of white-run metropolises in this nation, isn’t going to put a ton of resources into locating one Black female out of the many who’ve gone missing in the past few years.”

“And we’ll help you,” Chaz declared calmly.

Read Duty to Love at https://www.amazon.com/kindle-vella/story/B09K31M93J. Starting next week, I will release episodes on Mondays and Thursdays.