ark, narrow alley behin
rushed into the heated cabin. He stepped out, turned
her out
fingers wrapped around her wrist, squeezing
d in the middle, Colette was dragged toward a heavy
e deep inside the building. The air in the r
in the corner. He had expensive lighting umbrellas
s hands shook as he slid a pre-drafted
tain pen from the clerk. He
," Ferri
k looked like a death warrant. She shook her
clamped down on the back of her neck. He forced her hea
, his breath b
remembered as nothing but a disgraced fraud, and whatever pathetic pieces are left of t
family she had left, and the thought of his legacy be
ance. Tears spilled over her lashes as her
st the thick paper, leaving a jagged, messy signature.A single, hot tear dropped ont
on. He snatched the paper out from under h
p softly. "If you could step c
around her waist and yanked her against his
a board. Her face was
ack. He pinched the soft flesh above
mmanded throug
he forced the corners of her mouth up, crea
inded her. The mome
arm. He took a quick step back, his face twisti
it. Bishop stepped up behind Colet
ptop, sending the high-res photos to ev
d out the
rom behind dumpsters, their ca
it jacket and draped it over her head, shielding her face from the fl
linding lights. She felt like a hollow doll
one last, dead look before turning and wa
across from her. The driver hit the
t the leather. Her chest heaved. Sh
a word, he tossed a rolled-up, day-
e picked up the pap
unched the air out of her lungs: WHEELER ENT
. She looked up at Bishop,
her voice trembled.
d at her wit
nvestigation," Bishop said flatly. "He jumped off
ipped from Colet
ring through the silence of the car. She doubled over, c
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