It was rainy day in lower Tibeca , the cars flew by hitting pot holes and splashing those who were on the street. A young woman was standing under an Umbrella talking to a man in a nice SUV. "For coming out on this beautiful day, I will give you a great deal on one of my girls" She smiled at him and waved down one of the younger looking girls.

"Lila here will show you a great time and she will do whatever you want her to do for four hundred and twenty five dollars." She opened the door and put the girl in the car as he handed his money over to her, she smiled and waved at him as they drove away.

Her husband Ryan(we know as Declan) was standing behind her, she was startled when she seen him. "Love, why are you out here this time of day. I thought that you had a meeting with a supplier." She handed him the money she was just given.

He nodded and put it in his pocket. "Cassandra, I have decided that I am not going to work with this man any more, his woman are too old and they are all gross looking. I think most of them have some sort of infection." He took her hand and led her to his car.

She opened the door a bit worried on what he was doing, he was up to something she did not know what. "Ryan is everything okay? Miranda is she okay?" She asked quickly.

He smiled at her and kissed her head. "Yes, she is fine. I am going to take you home and let you have the day off today while I go and track down a girl for a friend of mine. You know what that means? You and Miranda will have to go to the safe house until I find her."
She rolled her eyes as she seated herself in the car. "Ryan, I hate when you put the two of us in danger like this. Why is this girl so important?"

"She just is, and stop with the questions. I am your husband and I will decide what is best for you." He started the car and took her to the safe house where Miranda was already there playing with her doll house in the living room.

Miranda a small child of only three ran to her mother hugging her legs. "Mommy, I have missed you all day."

Cassandra smiled picking her up and kissed her cheek. "I have only been gone for the morning."

Ryan smiled at them as he walked out, he knew that Olivia would be looking for Christina and that he needed to help her in any way that he could. He drove back into the city, the rain was coming down hard and he had no idea where to start. As he drove around for a few hours a thought came to him, Johnny D's mother would know where she was. After all the girl was raised as her own.

As he arrived at the run down house, he sighed hoping that she would give him some sort of information. He walked up the stairs which were missing boards and ready to fall in and he knocked on the door. An old lady who was wearing a house robe and slippers answered the door. "Can I help you with something, sir?"

Ryan nodded and pushed his way in. "Yes you can, as a matter of fact. I need to find a girl that was raised by you and your family." He had a gun in his belt, he let her see it.

She nodded at him as she looked down. "You are the man that has taken my sons spot in the trafficking world out there?" She lit a smoke.

"That I am , so you will see why it is wise to tell me the truth when I ask you the questions." He leaned against a wall because everything else was dirty.

She sat on the sofa and nodded. "Ask away there sweetness." She flicked her ashes on the floor.

"The girls name is Christina Matthews, and I need to know where she is. I know that you and your husband bought her from the black market. So you need to tell me everything that you know about her." He used his demanding voice.

She laughed at him as she finished her smoke. "Well sweetness, I think that you will know more about her then I will. I mean since you are the one that shares a bed with her at night." She flicked her cigarette butt on the floor. "You did marry that pro Casandra from the Tribeca area?"

His expression dropped and he nodded at her. "So you are telling me that Christina Matthews is actually my Cassandra? No that is not possible."

"Why the denial sweetness, she is a good catch. My Johnny had his way with her, and knocked her up. That is why she changed her name and moved locations, she wanted to keep my son away from that little girl. She thinks that I am stupid and would not get the goods on her, too bad Johnny is dead and can not claim what is his." She sighed as she lit another cigarette.

Ryan left the house without saying another word to her, this was wrong he thought the whole way to the safe house. He could not be married to Olivia's daughter, he takes her to bed. He quivered at the thought of it, this was not good. How was he to tell her that he is married to her daughter and she is the main person that his investigation wants to take down.

He walked into the house and quietly walked into their room, looking down at her he did not know how he did not see it before. She looked like her mother, she had her determination as well. This made his case a whole lot harder then it could have ever been for him.

Christina looked up at him. "Ryan are you okay?"

He sat there looking at her unable to speak.