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April 22 - April 23, 2025
The phone ringing at the same time it did every day for the past eight years, with a location, time, and threat,
Makayla died every time Crystal had to come out and play her role.
Rich made me feel safe from my father, too, but he was a wolf in sheep’s clothing.
is in a position that they want to get out but don’t know how. That’s what I see when I look into your eyes.
My boss, Marc Reynolds, Deputy Director of the FBI’s sex-trafficking unit, called me into the office for today.
We specialize in the recovery of victims.
Makayla was indeed a victim.
Makayla was my first love, the one who got away.
Some, if not all, of these women were abducted from their homes under the guise of love.
When Black girls go missing, we are deemed runaways, and no one cares enough to ask what really happened.
Me, a girl he just met, and a sex-trafficking victim at that?
Danielle told me to start calling myself that instead of a prostitute because I was forced to be here.
my life doesn’t have room for me to meet guys.
I’m literally in a situation I can’t get out of right now.
I see a strong, resilient woman who has done everything she needed to do to survive.
Absolutely!
A client got too rough almost a week ago, and while my skin tone was deep, it still showed the marks.
his heart in my hands, and me trying to keep mine trapped in the cage that it had been in for the past eight years.
You don’t deserve anything that’s happening to you right now.
day, you’ll get back everything the enemy stole from you.
He isolated us and instilled fear in most of the women,
they were too scared to go to the police for help.
I didn’t care for many things in this world but Makayla
I already lost her once; it would never happen again.
“According to your pops signing his parental rights over to me, I do, in fact, own you.
gave him enough of what he deserved so he would see the daily reminder of what he did to her.
She’s the best part of me, even if she doesn’t know it. I can’t lose her, Johnathan… not again.”
My heart was far more bruised than my body.
“I’m so sorry, baby girl… So sorry.” His grief made me realize that I had yet to cry for myself.
“Good morning, Makayla. Everything is okay, you are safe,” a feminine voice called out to me.
Phoenix, Brian’s cousin from the restaurant, there.
The memories of my last twenty-four hours came flooding in all at once, with my eyes full of tears, finally.
It’s hard to grow in the same place you’ve been broken in.
She was one of the few women in my life who could bring me to tears.
was showing her all of me because, when the time came for her to be my wife,
she could truly say that she had seen me in all four seasons of life.
Baby Girl kept a record of any and everyone she had ever dealt with throughout the years.
dates, times, names, and locations. She was so brilliant,
There was this girl I met when I was sixteen years old
it was love at first sight for me.
I want a woman who is kind, strong-minded, caring,
independent, and will pour into me as I do her.
You don’t need luck, you have God.
He has always been there for you
is waiting for you to include Him ...
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also found a pastor who gave me biblical guidance in one-on-one sessions.
so I did my nightly routine, which consisted of me praying over her and reading Isaiah 41:10.
I prayed that God would work a miracle in her life and restore the years that she had lost.
“Honestly, I feel scared because there is an entire chapter of my life missing.
God’s favor in my life allowed me to find my first love again after so many years,
“My reasoning for fighting is to save the little girl in me that no one thought to protect.
