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f the tinted window of the black Lincoln Navi
ork winter rain soaked through her thin, faded jeans, pasting the cheap fabric to her shivering
or frame. "You still smell like a prison cell, Acacia. Wash that off before you crawl back
nvas sneaker crushed the hundred-do
ge of the half-open window. Her knuckl
laugh. "Still breathing
er weather stripping of the window. The internal motor of the glass pane let out a
widened in raw panic as she stared atspray of icy mud across Acacia's thighs
ted into a cold, hard knot. She turned and began
e Dillon family townhouse on the Upper East Side. A burly secur
avity, and drove her elbow directly into the nerve cluster just below his ribs. Th
mahogany front door open. It slammed against
room, sipping tea from a bone-china cup. She looked up, her face twist
" Bulah sneered, covering her
est heaved, her lungs burning from the cold. "Why w
a thick stack of legal documents from the glas
rust fund, and you agree to marry the man we've selected for y
cacia's voice was a
lls Elmira's ventilat
d in her fingertips. It would take exactly two seconds to snap Bulah's fragile neck. But the image
ped to the signature page. She pressed the nib into the paper so hard that the
l. Brodie is having his bachelor party tonight at The Tempest
"Wire one million dollars t
out into
anhattan. The front door bouncers took one look at
ll, mapping the blind spots of the security cameras. She scaled the fire escape with silent, predat
to Acacia's collarbone. Her vision blurred for a fraction of a second. She blink
s nightmare to end. She pushed op
heavy electronic lock clicked
ike burning spices and raw pheromones. Her heart rate spiked. Her
dle, a massive, scorching hot hand clam
grabbing the man's forearm, attempting to throw his cent
didn't
He spun her around and slammed her back against the velve
ed in the darkness. It was a
eavy, her blood boiling with a drug-induced fire. She th
he gasped, her fingernails dig
in the air was destroying his control, too. Hi
d against her neck, his voice dripping
ite him, tried to fight, but the neuro-toxin turned her resistance into a desperate, writhing friction. The darkn
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