That or an opportunity

"Sorry," she said. "I just do that."

He took his hands off her leg. "You all right?"

While he waited for an answer he looked closely for any sign of bruising or past injury that might explain why she was so sensitive. Nothing stood out and, with his enhanced sight, anything serious enough to cause her to wince at the light touch he started with should have been obvious.

"Do you want to talk about it?" he said.

"Talk about what? I thought you were supposed to be giving me a massage."

"If that's what you want, I'll do it. But I don't think that's what you want at all. I think you're afraid to have a man touch you and I want to know why."

"That's... that's ridiculous."

"Okay. Maybe it's just me, then. Are there other men you'd be okay with touching you?"

"I like having men touch me."

Her vagina wasn't saying she liked it. With her legs open for his touch, her shaved pussy was on full view and it looked completely dry. "Generic men or particular men?"

"Particular men, of course. You think I like having strangers walk up to me and grope me? Like those Japanese movies of schoolgirls getting molested on the train while they just stand there and have strangers poke at their tits and pull off their panties and fuck them while all around people are pretending it isn't happening, just letting those assholes do whatever they want no matter how much those girls are protesting and saying they don't want it."

Rick couldn't swear it but he didn't think Nicki was a good enough actor to produce tears in her eyes on demand but there were definitely tears running down her cheeks. He also didn't thin Nicki was really generating those tears about Japanese porn actresses dressed up as schoolgirls. Unless he completely missed his guess, she was crying about herself.

Which meant a couple of things. First, it meant he'd be a real asshole if he masturbated her or fucked her, eighteen years old or not. Second, it meant someone had been abusing her. Maybe it was some schoolteacher. Maybe it was a religious leader. But maybe it was someone in her family.

Rick had less than no compassion for someone who would sexually exploit a child. But despite Nicki being a spoiled brat, he had compassion for her. And going to the police with an accusation that she'd been abused might just expose her to worse trauma than she'd already gone through.

Not for the first time he wished he'd paid more attention in his psychology classes. When he'd been in college, he'd only been interested in what psychology could tell him about separating suckers from their money. He didn't think those lessons applied here.