ndria
he beat her hands frantically against my forearm, her manicured nails
ure in my fingers unt
queezed the words through her teeth,
lapsed onto the ground like a puddle of mud, clutching
down there and try it yourself," I said, tu
everage to roll the hundred-and-eighty-pound man to the edge of the pit. Without pausing, I used my body weigh
bled up on her hands and knees, tr
m the ground and threw it backward without turning my head. The stone struck the back
by one and kicked them all down into the hole. Five grown men piled up on top of
completely undone, hanging around her mud-streaked face like a madwoman's. I grabbed th
ls into the dirt until they bled, leaving ten deep scratches in the mud. "I a
e edge of the pit. "A mother who sends
th one arm and held her over the dark hole. Suspended above the pit, Beat
thud on top of the unconscious guards. She groaned and curled into a ball, tryi
hrown earlier, and returned to the edge of the pit. Holding the w
raight down. It splattered right across Beatric
the mud on her face as she sobbed in
l after shovelful of wet earth rained down into the pit. In my past life, I had buried plenty of enemies
climbing up Beatrice's calves, pinning her legs in place. Re
! I shouldn't have poisoned you!" she waile
through the night air in cold arcs, bury
?" I said coldly, digging the blade into the dirt pile ag
head. Just as I tilted the blade to dump it, Beatrice screame
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