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up, pr
cked the metal
asped. Her eye
d her. She turned her head away. Her heart hamm
gh hemp rope bit into the raw skin of her
doned Brooklyn warehouse was thick. It
fistful of her hair.
a sharp cry. H
et of his dirty jacket. He p
ed her thumb onto the sensor. The
luminated Dwayne's scarred face.
at a name.
d. Her fiancé. He would pay.
n. He put the phone on
rang on
, a
ted through the tiny speaker. It was the string
voice cut through the music
ed a cold, heavy tactical knife against her carotid artery. The sharp ed
ant one million dollars in cryptocurrency. I will send you the wall
voice echoed in the background.
b
. When she was kidnapped, her fianc
dripped with absolute disdain. "Hiring a thug t
the knife. The blade dug deeper. The sting was nothing compa
d," Jerod said coldly. "You lack basi
er
th her," Jerod said to t
l disco
ing beep fille
rt slowed to a heavy, hollow thud. Her hands stopped pu
t her
. His face turned red. The
bitch!" Dw
one against the
ces of glass and plastic
lon's chest. The last four years of her life, her compromises, her d
r. He kicked a metal
wayne muttere
Falon. A sick, twisted sm
pulled out a syringe. The barrel was
king the needle. "I might as well have some fun.
instinct exploded in her brain.She thrashed aga
pinned her left shoulder
into her thigh.He jammed the needle into th
bloodstream, it felt like liquid n
dle out and stepped b
retreat, Falon threw her e
the chair back splintered and snapped. The
friction tore the skin off her
the syringe and reached
hand brushed against a jagged sh
es sliced into her palm and W
lunged
ove the glass shard deep into th
to his knees. Blood spurted from the wound, soaking his
arm away and stum
el and broken glass on the floor
moment, the
rk shadows. Her body temperature spiked, a strange, burn
. The sharp pain and the taste o
r and threw her body against it. Ther instantly. I
d from inside the warehouse. She heard
She sprinted into the p
an into her eyes, stinging them. The heavy, wet fabric
rner into a nar
black Maybach. The engine was running. T
ps echoed behind her.
e threw her body onto the
hed windshield. She locked eyes wi
rk, piercing, and carri
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