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her all at once, a solid wall of agony
sts. The metal ground against her bones. She was pinned to a massive concrete pillar in the center of
dripped from her forehead, stinging h
haze, a figure w
stepped into the dim light filtering through the broken skylight. She wore a pristine, crea
t, melodic laugh spilled from her lips. It w
rought the pointed heel of her stil
und was sickeningly lo
to scream. She just stared up at the woman she had called her sister for ten years. The
y floor. She pulled a hunting knife from her pocket. The col
tough girl, Ginny?"
harsh, clanking noise that bounced off the corrugated metal walls. The iron tore
d from the shado
charcoal suit. He raised a silver lighter to his mouth an
an
t tightened so violently she thought her ribs might snap. T
arm around Coretta's waist, pulled her flush against his chest,
closed up. She
finally looked down at Ginny. His e
aid. His voice was steady, businesslike. "You
Hot, stinging tears welled in her eyes. They spilled over her lashes, mixing
in her eyes morphed into sharp, sudden jealousy. Even beaten, bloody, and
knife tightened. Her
d the blad
eek. The cut was deep, running from her cheekbone to her jaw. H
severed the emotional cord in G
n Ginny's throat. It grew louder, echoing in the wareh
er arm back and slapped Ginny across the face. The
ned a second later, carrying a large, heavy r
k cap. She lifted the heav
into her eyes, and saturated her clothes. The harsh, chemical stench o
empty jug. It boun
d a heavy, windproof metal lighter from his p
blue flam
d the lighter onto the gasoline
f orange fire erupted upward with a loud whoosh.
ked toward the heavy metal exit doors, their l
lammed shut. The deadb
in. The pain was absolute. It overrode every nerve ending in her body. Her f
broken skylight, watching the black smoke bi
the words burning in her mind, I wil
windpipe. Her lungs seized. She
around her chest, her neck, her fa
, violent thud against h
eared. Ginny felt a strange, weightless sensation. She looked down. S
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