20 Chapter 20: GABRIEL

“How? Did you think she was just going to hop on and go with you without a problem?” He looked at Sam and fidgeted a bit before looking back at me. “Is that how you take all the others to him?”

“No, this time was different. The kids usually go out to this place for work and a hot meal…”

“What place?”

“It’s a place in town that went out of business a while ago. Calhoun rents office space there, but there’s nothing in there but some phones and computers. It’s set up to look like a call center.”

“Keep talking.”

“I tell them they just have to answer the phone and such to get paid ten dollars an hour. I don’t know what kind of setup Calhoun has after that. I just pick the ones I think he’d like and send them to the place, and they disappear until the next batch.”