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n't blink. She stood in the suffocating darkness of the narrow alley,
hard her jaw ached, but her right hand was completely steady. Between her p
like a concrete wall, stepped out. He popped open a black umbrella and jogged toward the corn
as e
ow, dodging the halos of the streetlights, slipping directly into Mickey's
metal washer across the asphalt, sending it clatte
he noise, exposing the vulnerable expanse of his nape for half a second. It was all theblur of motion. The three silver needles pierced the skin at the base of his neck,
lled back. His vocal cords paralyzed before a single sound c
ing the asphalt and alerting the nearby security detail. Her knees buckled under the crushing pressure, h
shoved her freezing hand into his tailored coathe marched straight tow
wood and expensive leather hit her face, a sickening contrast
m against the lock button. The heavy thunk of the deadbolts
brake pedal and jammed her finger against the ignition. The V12 engine let ou
face. Her skin was paper-white, her eyes entirely
wn, pulling out of an underground garage, was the ext
sound of her grandparents screaming in the fire clawed at the inside
nto Drive and buried her rig
t, the rear end fishtailing violently. Keira gripped the leather steering wheel, her knuckles turni
causing black spots to dance in her vision. She bit down hard on the inside oftion glared a blinding red. A wall of
foot. She pressed th
ars slammed on their brakes, tires smoking in the rain as they
water exploded across the windshield. The wipers thrashed frantica
ry glass, she could see the faint outline of a passenger in the back seat. Th
urn the wheel for a catastrophic, T-b
al hum vibrated
ion separating the front seats from
oug
of absolute, crushing authority. It echoed through th
. She snapped her eyes
spacious back seat, a pair of pi
and, he held a crystal glass of whiskey. The amber liquid was perfectl
Her right foot involuntarily twitched, lifting off the acce
, his broad shoulders filling the gap in the partition. His long, elegant f
riving system f
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