I used the directions Joel had given me and pulled the pickup into the lot of the seediest strip joint in town. I'd never been to this place before, but I knew about it. Several young women I had treated at the clinic picked up johns here. I thought it best to warn Lucas.

"Do you know what a strip club is Lucas?" I asked.

"No, Madam Alpha," he said scanning the dimly lit parking lot and low dingy building.

"It's a place where human women dance in little to no clothing. They are supposed to just dance, but in some places the women have sex with men for money....