Chapter 25

Mok, Zip, and Toad rode the elevator all the way up to the pent-house floor.

When they got to there, the elevator doors opened to reveal Beta, who was staring right at them.

"Rho—!" Zip clamped her mouth shut with his hand.

"Who are you? Where's Legrand?" Mok asked, but the old woman refused to speak. Instead, she hit Zip on the head with her cane. "Ouch! That hurt!" he cried, but Toad shooched him.

"I will ask, again, where is Legrand?" Mok repeated the question.

Beta pointed to the office door at the end of the hall. The three went up to the door, Zip dragged the old woman all the way, and Mok looks at his employees. "Just keep your mouths shut, I will do the talking," he said and turned on the tape recorder and slipped it into his pocket.

The rock star opened the door slowly. He spotted Rhonda at her desk, smoking a cigarette and looking at the many jewels she laid out.

"Let me guess?" his voice filled the room and Rhonda shot her head up, "Those are not yours."

"Mok! How did you find this place?" she exclaimed, hiding the jewels in a drawer.

"I became curious of your secret hallways and your secret elevator," Mok replied as he and his employees entered in.

Beta scurried away from Zip and Rhonda looks at her as if she committed a crime.

"Is there something I can help you with?" Rhonda asked, showing a fake smile.

"I'm here to file a complaint," he said and sat down at the chair facing her.

"Tell me about the complaint and I can assure you, it will be taken care of," Rhonda replied, doing her best to sound legit.

"Are you aware that the girl you sent me to my room is covered in bruises and scars? In fact, all of the girls are covered in some sort of abuse you inflicted upon them," Mok told her and Rhonda's face turned white.

"Let me tell you this; you run this brothel, just to get more money. However, in order to keep those girls in line, you and your goons abuse them to the point where they have become so terrified that they lose their sanity and their sense of having hope," Mok explained, but Rhonda began to giggle.

"I don't know where you got this crazy idea that I run an illegal brothel, but I can assure you that everything you saw was not real," she replied, but then, Mok slammed his fist on the desk.

"Don't fuck with me!" he shouted, "I know abuse when I see it and I will tell the world that you are a monster!"

Rhonda gave a sneer, "There is only one thing that makes the world go round," she said and held a dollar bill, "Money, because that's what everyone thinks about. However, I admit, I beat the girls not to just keep them in order, but I get a jolt of energy and I feel like a queen ruling over her subjects."

"Why are you interested in getting so much money?" Mok asked another question.

"Like I said, everyone wants money, so that they can get whatever they want. Me, I want to retire in the most luxurious place in the whole world; the Caribbean," Rhonda said.

"But why turn to crime? You know that this sort of business will land you in a life sentence," Mok said, but Rhonda gave an annoyed look.

"Do you think I can get a million or perhaps a billion dollars just by running this place without a brothel? Well, when the Black Widow was first opened by my father 40 years ago, he barely made monthly quotas because hardly anybody walked in through those doors. After he died, I experimented a little by having the men book with girls that I adopted. Turns out that the experiment was a success," Rhonda replied, but Mok's mouth fell open when he heard this.

"You…you just let those men rape your children?" he asked, but she gave a sniff.

"They were not my kids. Heck, I didn't even want them," Rhonda replied.

"I hate to interrupt," Zip said, "But what do you mean 'they were not'? I may not be the smartest of my family, but that sounds like those girls, um, passed away or something."

Mok and Toad were curious by this theory and they looked at Rhonda, who gave an evil grin.

"Do you know what I did with them? Including those who stop getting clients?" she said and Mok braced himself.

"I disposed of them," Rhonda replied with an evil grin, "I let my top man, Andro take them and kill them, isn't that smart?"

Mok grew angry with those words, "So you threw them away like they're trash?" he asked and Rhonda chuckled. Mok was not sure if he could hold in his rage any longer, but he had to listen.

"That's one way to put it," Rhonda replied and then stands up, "And I think you over-welcomed your stay."

Mok, however, gave a grin, "I believe the police will be interested when they see what is in here," he said and held up the camera.

"Do you know what's in here?" he asked, but Rhonda shook her head.

"Evidence that will tell everyone that not only you run a prostitution ring, but that these girls suffered at your hands," he informed and Rhonda's jaw dropped, but then smiled.

"What if they don't believe you? Your rescue mission will be for nothing," she replied, but Mok still showed his grin and then showed his recorder.

"Know what this is?" he asked and Rhonda's face dropped, "Thanks to your confession, they will surely believe me."

"No, don't do it!" she begged, "I'll do anything!"

"Anything?" Mok asked and she nodded, "I want you to release Angel from this place."

"Angel?" Rhonda replied and realization filled her, "I will teach her how to keep her nose—" "If you *ever* come near Angel," Mok cut her off, his words were like acid, "I will kill you!" he shouted. "In fact, I would like to strangle you, but it would be fun to see you in front of a judge and see him give you the maximum sentence."

Rhonda's body shook from those words, "Okay, okay, you can take Angel, but if there is anything else, please take it."

Mok stood up from the chair and turned to leave.

"What are you going to do with those?" Rhonda asked, pointing to the camera and recorder.

"I'm going to hold onto these and I won't tell the police," Mok replied, but Zip and Toad looked at each other, "That is, if I change my mind."

As soon as the three left the office, Toad asks, "Sir, did I hear you correctly?"

Mok, however, grins, "I said 'if I change my mind'," he repeated and the two brothers knew what that meant.

The three entered back in the elevator and went back to the presidential suite on the 15th floor.

"Toad, take these to Commissioner Holton," Mok said, handing the tape-recorder and camera to him.

Toad took the elevator all the way down to the loading dock and headed out to the police station.

"Now, we wait, right boss?" Zip asked and Mok nodded.

"Yes Zip, we wait," he replied, as he gazed out on the horizon on the balcony.