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all my whining about how i would always keep her safe. I

fear in her eyes slowly shifted into something muc

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antly, her shoulders square as if to steel herself for whatever would happen next. I glanc

ease, I'll

t Karma? Bad Karma Natasha. All those people you've killed, all the count

this if I didn'

flashing them àt me. "You always had a choice! You could

ople I killed haunted me. Sure I had tossed my identity in the mud, I

il

en a job at the nightclub in the first place. Every time I closed my eyes, all I

ear it all if it mea

ife meant nothing to me. He knew that. But he also knew how

rs running down her cheeks. "I thought I had

ore could I say? She already thought the worst of m

d as long as that happened, I would resign to t

survival over her

ned to fall, I took a couple of

at one day you would come to understand just how m

r said coldly, striking

ldn't she see that I had tried?! I tried to be nor

redemption. I couldn't be saved but she could be. And I would do ever

rm around her shoulders. She buried her fac

r such as you who takes pleasure in killing people, I d

akly, tears stinging the corne

reamed. "Go away. Go and do whateve

grab her shoulder and shake some sense int

have Mathew. I'm not alone. You can go be the crazy woman

t up in flames. Alisa pulled away from Mathew and p

ver thread of hope there was. Why was she doing this? I never would hav

or I swear I'll go c

himself from his trembling wife and grabbed my

me towards the gate. "She's just very upset. I'm sure

e would be mad. I hadn't expected her to toss me aside li

how she

hen I stepped outside their gates and gave me a bri

my head. I shook it trying to get it out, trying

ste

I was foolish to have thought I cou

y back home. Perhaps I should call off the deal. I had to find a way to ma

e way from Italy to New York to find me. I doubted

eless if he couldn't be mobile. A flash of Luca's angry face ran through my head and I shudde

dn't d

a at all cost. Even if it meant she would hate me

rn with all excitement to see my sister, clung to my skin and irritated the shit out of me. I couldn't wait to be home so I co

feet into my building when my phone shrilled.

" I sai

my ears and I stiffened. I glanced around quickly, trying to figur

do you

tense. Things didn't go too wel

gritting my teeth. "Y

d as if it was absolut

t's all you're going to

to defend myself before you. I have no reason to do that. And put yourself in my shoes will you? You recruited a top Russian assassi

e a bad idea," I grumbl

replied. "Change out o

y apartment and slammed the door

time, Vera Ivanov. And I doubt you can

rprised," I

will get to you in thirty minutes. Get