broken glass and scattered papers. A tremor took
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. A small, glossy piece of paper slid o
hentic pregna
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m and saw the image on th
rom her throat. She doubled over, clutching h
rs welling in her eyes. "M
pped out of
ic with a mask of
at me bleedin
y paper was ripped into fragments. He opened his
a terrifying rage. "You faked a pregnancy. Your dea
pooling around my legs as he
he armored SUV, but stopped at
sson in obedience," he threateat the b
Lorenzo ordered. "Lock them from the
natched my phone from the ground an
out and hit the
ers ground down with aocks clicke
f of light was followed by a silence so profound I could he
eeding p
me from the floor, a chill that
n began
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ly, the edge bitin
arp edge across
rough the fog in my brain, a
oss the floor, leaving a thi
r-the boutique's backup audio recorder, dislodged from the counter. In
rd the landline be
led sounds of the
frantic voice shoutingd her medical files in the system! She has Rh-negative
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d against t
inst the pavement, sprintin
a sound that was not human-a raw, guttural roar
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