His Dead Lover In A New Body

of cheap cigars and stale sweat invaded her nostrils. Her ch

wrists. Thick nylon ropes bound her hands together. Her muscles screa

he suffocating darkness of a chemical waste pool. The toxic liquid filling her thro

er body convulsing as the phantom sens

her who sold her to clear a gambling debt. She was Imogen Montgomery, but she was tra

water in the bathro

addled out, humming a vile, off-key tune. Briana's pup

. His greedy, wet eyes dragged over her body like physical slime

iana's throat. Her stomach violently contracted. She jerked her head away

ural sound. He reached down t

against something hard and jagged. It was a remnant from a shattered beer bottl

r palm. The warm, sticky slide of her own blood sh

ove the jagged glass strai

eal. He stumbled backward, clutching his sho

ging the bloody glass edge frantically against the nylon r

ung her legs off the bed and planted h

ee, crashing into the nightstand and sen

elf at the door. Her bloody hands slipped on the doorknob. She

imself up, grabbing the heavy base of t

he doorframe inches from her head. She reached up, her

nto the freezing hallway. The cold air hit h

on screamed from

in cheap black suits snapped their heads towar

avy housekeeping cart parked against the wall and shove

dyguard. Bottles of bleach and det

back. She sprinte

ng down the concrete steps. On the final landing, her foot caught the edge. Her

the stairs behind her

e forced herself up, dragging her injured leg, and

y soaked her thin clothes, plastering them to her shivering skin. She

over the thunder. The bodyguards

Her heart hammered against

gh the curtain of rain. A massive black

ers slipped on the slick asphalt. She lost her balance and

oad. The Maybach slammed to a ha

n. A large, black umbre

puddle. Briana scrambled to her feet, her survival instinct p

rwood and expensive cologne enveloped her. It cut through the smell of

ed dead in their tra

w a black handgun from his holster. The metallic click of the sa

streetlights illuminated the man's fac

stopped. C

ainst his chest, clutching at the fabric as her vision swam. T