g. High, sharp cheekbones. Dark, almond-shaped eyes framed by naturally thick lashes. Her lip
om the dispenser and slowly wiped
led groan brok
y went perfectly still. Her dark eyes flicked to the reflection of the bathroom st
feet and moved soundlessly across the tiled floor, the cheap heels making
tween the door and the fr
wall. The young man had messy blond hair and a sharp, expensively-bred jaw. One thug had a thick rag clamped over the blond boy's m
kid. Your daddy's company is gonna pay a fortune to get you back in one piec
d. The muscles in he
r-old body was soft, underfed, utterly unconditioned. She couldn't rely on power. She had to rely entirely on flawless technique, leverage, and absol
slammed directly into the thug's spintumbled forward. The blond boy slid down
rage when he saw the girl in the pink dress standing in t
at. She stepped fu
d spent a decade drilling. She dropped her center of gravity, twisted her hips,
was preci
horrible, wet choking sound gargled from his mouth as his knees buckled a
handled switchblade from his combat boot, and pressed the rel
ng the blade strai
t. The blade sliced through the air, missing her cheek by a m
ving hard into the nerve cluster. Her right hand locked around his forearm. She twisted her entire
ap cracked thr
rs went limp, and the switch
ade. She flipped the knife in her hand, gripping the blade flat against hered like a sack of wet cement, landing
nly by the boy's ragge
on was a blur of swimming shapes, but he could see her-the girl standing over two uncon
ndle clean on the thug's leather jacket and tossed it casually ovehad bunched at the waist. She gripped the hem and pu
g man. She didn't ask if he
er the pink fabric. This body was far from its peak; the impact had nearly bruised her own bones. Ginny ignore
chest heaving, and burned the image of her
lass door and stepped back in
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