Rising From Exile: The Widow's Comeback

Chapter 7

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ooked at Kenzie's pointing fi

head away and went back to smoothing the

ers where Annetta sat quietly at the end of the table,

. She stepped forward and stepped

anity, that Kenzie's breath hitched in her throat. Kenzie stumbled backward

stration. "You're nothing! You're just a cheap co

crumpled ball of wet toilet paper flew acro

into her arms. She glared at Annetta

red over the mother and da

her voice carrying effortlessly over the murmurs of the cell. "The

arred window high on the wall,

zone in the mountains. If you speak to me like that again,

attooed women were leaning against the bars, grinning, their

backward, pressing herself against

hen we get there, we are spl

Annett

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uietly, but it carrie

of her ruined blouse. She looked down at

. "We have lost our home, our wealth, and our protection. Right now, she is the only one who seems to understand the reality of this filth. So you will listen to her, or you will freeze on your own.

into a tense, f

d violently in her sleep, her lips turning a pale shade of blue.No matter how thick the cotton

ded no warmth at all. Her teeth chattere

on. She moved directly in front of the air vent, using her own body as a

Cristina gave her

racing, pulling up the digital blueprints of the Ark. She was calculating the distance from t

glare of the corrido

wo guards slammed their batons against the

t is early. Line up for strip search and shack

ere sharp, focused, and deadly.

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Rising From Exile: The Widow's Comeback

Victoria Romance

“The heavy oak doors of the Crane estate splintered under the battering ram. Annetta was just putting her five-year-old daughter to sleep when the SWAT team stormed the nursery. They told her that her husband, Major Alek Crane, was killed in action overseas. But instead of a hero's funeral, he was branded a national traitor, and the feds were seizing every penny of their wealth. Lead investigator Issac Rocha dragged Alek's charred remains into the grand hall just to mock him. He stripped Annetta of her wedding band, confiscated her winter coat, and officially exiled her, her daughter, and her hostile mother-in-law to a freezing Appalachian death zone. In the federal holding cell, the extended family turned on Annetta, calling her a cheap commoner and leaving her to shiver on the concrete floor. They were dumped in an abandoned mining town with nothing but canvas jumpsuits to die in the snow. Annetta knew Alek was framed in a ruthless political hit. Issac Rocha wanted them to rot in the mud and freeze to death, completely forgotten by the world. "We are going to live, and we are going to burn Issac Rocha to the ground." But Issac made one fatal mistake. He didn't know the quiet, submissive daughter-in-law had spent the last three years secretly building a military-grade doomsday bunker right in the heart of that very mountain. Stepping past the freezing mud, Annetta initiated the biometric scan, and the massive steel blast doors slowly swung open.”