rey
my eye. My breath hitched, a pathetic
world to
t me like a physical blow. My body violently convulsed against the nylon straps. The sound took me straight back to thcloud of C4 smoke, a figure
li
ive leather shoes crunched over the concrete rub
hrown against the load-bearing wall. He groaned
er mad
enclosed space. The guard's wrist exploded in a spray of crimson. He let out a piercing, p
even flinch. I just sta
ific acid burns covering my back. He saw the crude, swollen stitches on
shrank to
d. The veins in his hands bulged against his skin. The thick material snapped under his raw, violent strength. He had promised me years ago tha
ding me up, my ruined
his chest, his movements incredibly ge
y suture needle abandoned on the floor. My throat worked, but
from his body heat. He wrapped it tightly around my s
men stepped forward and drove a combat boot through the man's knee. Th
k their hands," he ordered, his voi
. The asylum's maximum-security red alarm fi
s earpiece. The pilot. The ro
"The nightmare is over, Audrey," he whispered, h
down my face. The last ounce of my adrenaline vanish
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k P
shed it past a hundred and twenty miles per
feed. The blaring sound of the red alarm echoed th
my chest. I couldn't breathe. Audrey was my caged canary. She was supposed to be s
heavy iron gates, the metal screeching as my car tore through them. The tires bur
en before the car e
rithed on the ground, groaning in agony. Every
bloody water, and I nearly slipped. I stumbled down the concrete sta
in the d
chair w
. Beneath the chair was a massive, bli
ey landed on a small, metallic object in the c
igh-pitched ringing drowned out the wail
f a guard bleeding out on the floor. His
, my vision swimming with
n. "Armed... armed men," he choked
ness mixed with explosive rage. I turned and punched the concrete load
the room hit my throat. My stomach violently revolted. Irough his suit. He held up a tablet. "Sir! An u
t the blinking red dot moving away on the radar
ely. I want this airspace
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